A report published in a newspaper brings another interesting observation to the fore that women constitute 98 percent of the total population of 4.2 million sterilised in the last four decades.
The recent incidents of medical negligence during sterilisation surgeries at many places raises serious concerns on the healthcare of our country. The surgeries were performed on women that lead to infections and even deaths giving us a grim reminder of the callous attitude of doctors in government hospitals and primary health care centres.
Death of 16 women in the month of November in the Pendari village, Bilaspur also raises questions about medical standards followed in such sterilisation camps organised across the country under national family planning program between the months of October and February. After these incidents came to the fore, iamin tried to look at the reasons for women being the victims always.
Sterilisation camps were started in 1970 under the family planning programme in India with the help of the UN Population Fund and funds received from the World Bank. Not only the medical standards, but even the societal attitude has seemingly remained unchanged all these years as it is mostly women in India who bear the brunt of sterilisation for family planning. A report published in a newspaper also brings another interesting observation to the fore that women constitute 98 percent of the total population of 4.2 million sterilised in the last four decades. The perspective about this is so deep-rooted that even the marketing and advertising campaigns run by the National Family planning programme largely focus on promotion of contraceptive pills, that are used by women, instead of condoms used by men to tackle the issue of population control.
The consensus among doctors suggests that male sterilisation is easier and safer than female sterilisation. The NSV technique, developed by Dr. Shunqiang Li in 1974 in China, is one of the most popular and safest method of vasectomy in men.
Most of the men believe that they become sexually weak after getting sterilised. According to Dr. Ramamurti Kaza, expert on NSV, such myths are prevalent in the society as there are not too many Men's Welfare Associations in India and it is not that men are not ready for sterilisation, but their mentality is still bound by old notions.
Ruchi M. Upadhyay, an activist who has been working for creating awareness about male sterilisation for over eight years spoke to iamin and shared that women are pushed for sterilisation from decades, arguably due to patriarchal attitude. Wives, expressing devotion towards their husbands, take the onus of family planning on their shoulders forgetting the fact that their husbands are equally responsible to take charge in this regard.
Although the procedure of female sterilisation is more complex than male sterilisation, not many men come forward to opt for family control programmes.
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