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Damon Winter The Dallas Morning News
"Broken System, Broken Lives: Indian adoptions"


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"Sterilization camp" Dr. Harishchandra Reddy performs a double puncture laporoscopic tubectomy on one woman as two others are prepped for surgery at Shatnagar Hospital where the government holds a one-day sterilization camp for poor village women. The actual procedure takes from 30 seconds to one minute for Dr. Reddy. Three women are prepped constantly so the doctor can move quickly from patient to patient, performing as many as 50 surgeries per hour. The government sponsored camps are held all across the state in tiny villages. The camp travels from town to town but there are as many as four per month in one location, serving from 50 to 350 women per day.
 

 

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