India sterilisations: Doctor held
Thursday, 13 November 2014
A doctor has been arrested in connection with the deaths of 15 women at two state-run sterilisation camps in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Dr RK Gupta and his assistant carried out tubectomies on 130 women at two separate camps on Saturday and Monday. Fourteen died after the first camp in Bilaspur and one after the second, while more than 90 women remain in hospital, many in a critical condition, according to a news agency.