Chhattisgarh deaths: Doc who performed 83 surgeries arrested in Bilaspur
RK Gupta the doctor who performed sterlisation surgeries at a government mass sterilisation “camp” where 13 women died, was arrested by the police. Here are the photos.
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RK Gupta (L), a doctor who performed sterlisation surgeries at a government mass sterilisation “camp”, sits at a police station as police and the media look on in Bilaspur, in Chhattisgarh. Gupta, whose sterilisation of 83 women in less than three hours ended in at least a dozen deaths said on Thursday the express operations were his moral responsibility and blamed adulterated medicines for the tragedy. Gupta, who says he has conducted more than 50,000 such operations, denied that his equipment was rusty or dirty and said it was the government’s duty to control the number of people that turned up at his family-planning “camp”. Reuters
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RK Gupta, the doctor who conducted 83 sterilisation surgeries at the government-organised family planning camp, in police custody in Bilaspur on Thursday. “It is up to the administration to decide how many women would be kept for operation,” Gupta told Reuters from the police station where he is being held in custody. PTI
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“If they kept in that place 83 women, it is my moral responsibility to operate (on) all the women. If I decline to do that I would have faced public agitation,” said Gupta, after he was arrested. PTI
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Gupta further said that the possible cause of death could have been faulty medication that was handed out by health workers. PTI
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Gupta has been charged with section 304 II (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and other relevant sections of IPC, the IG said. PTI
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Women wail beside the body of a woman, who underwent sterilisation surgery at a government mass sterilisation camp, inside an ambulance outside Chhattisgarh Institute of Medical Sciences (CIMS) hospital in Bilaspur. Thirteen women have died, dozens more remain in hospital and 20 are critically ill after the operations performed by a doctor accused of using rusty equipment in a dirty operating room. Reuters
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Women, who underwent a sterilization surgery at a government mass sterilisation “camp”, lie in hospital beds for treatment at Chhattisgarh Institute of Medical Sciences (CIMS) hospital in Bilaspur.
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