Only conspiracy theorists or Islamic extremists in Pakistan and Nigeria believe in such things!
"11 women die after botched government sterilizations in India" by Ellen Barry and Suhasini Raj | New York Times November 12, 2014
NEW DELHI — Eleven women have died and dozens more were sickened after surgical sterilizations at a government-run camp in India, where women are often paid to undergo the procedures in an effort to control population growth, health officials said Tuesday.
The women were paid almost $10, said Dr. Amar Singh Thakur, joint director of health services in the central Indian district of Bilaspur. One surgeon performed surgery on 83 women in the space of six hours on Saturday — meaning he could have spent only a few minutes on each patient, Thakur said.
The women began to fall ill around five hours after being discharged, Thakur said, experiencing giddiness, vomiting, and low blood pressure. Sixty-eight women are being treated for septic shock in hospitals, and four are in serious condition and on ventilators, Thakur said.
State officials said evidence pointed to negligence on the part of the surgeon.
And not the “quacks who gave them antibiotics?”
Antibiotic pills that were"contaminated with rat poison, at a government-run “sterilization camp.”
Who the hell knows what is in the lunch.
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India has a tumultuous history with sterilization, dating to the 1970s, when a ruthless, coercive campaign was carried out under Indira Gandhi. Though the country recoiled at those measures, in recent years many state-level policymakers have favored a tough approach to population control and begun introducing incentives — often financial — to discourage families from having more than two children.
China's policy always drew way more attention.
Fertility rates in India have been in decline for decades, to about 2.5 children per woman now from six in the 1950s. Mass sterilizations are frequently performed in India, and human rights activists have long complained that they are done hastily and under dangerously unsanitary conditions.
The Bilaspur deaths mark the largest loss of life during a sterilization drive in recent history.
Reeta Netam and Madhulata Yadav, two patients who spoke by telephone from the hospital, said a village health worker had gone door to door inviting women to have the surgery, and then reclaimed one-third of each woman’s compensation as a fee for transportation.
Netam, 23, and Yadav, 26, each has several children — three and four, respectively — and said they had willingly agreed to the procedure.
But both suggested that the money was an inducement. Netam said her husband earned 100 rupees a day as a farmhand.
“We thought it would be best to get sterilization done,” Netam said. “It was not only free, but we were also given 600 rupees, out of which the worker kept 200 rupees for the van to carry us to the hospital.”
In a news release, Raman Singh, leader of the state, said sterilization was a national program, carried out under the auspices of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
India carries out roughly 37 percent of the world’s female sterilizations, according to a 2011 report by the United Nations. The percentage for China was around 28.
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"Tainted drugs suspected in India sterilization deaths" by Suhasini Raj and Ellen Barry | New York Times November 14, 2014
Gee, the knee-jerk reaction by authority was to scapegoat the doctor!
NEW DELHI — Post-mortem examinations of several women who died after surgery at a government sterilization camp last weekend in central India suggest that tainted medications might be to blame, rather than the unsanitary conditions or the assembly-line haste of the operations, a district medical officer said Thursday.
Initially, health officials suspected that 12 women succumbed to septic shock from infections contracted during their tubal ligation operations Saturday, in the state of Chhattisgarh. The surgeon who operated on most of them, Dr. R.K. Gupta, was arrested Wednesday on charges of culpable homicide.
However, the district medical officer, Dr. M.A. Jeemani, said Thursday that tainted medicines might be to blame.
The deaths have drawn international attention to the practice, common in India, of offering women cash and other incentives to be sterilized at “fairs” or “camps” where surgeons operate one after the other on large numbers of patients. At the Saturday fair, a surgeon was reported to have operated 83 times in one day.
Not for long.
But in recent days, the investigation has focused on the two packets of pills sent home with each patient after surgery, one containing ciprofloxacin, an antibiotic, and the other containing the anti-inflammatory pain reliever ibuprofen.
One clue pointing to the pills was another death and scores of hospitalizations from separate sterilization clinics overseen by another surgeon two days later. That surgeon, Dr. K.K. Sao, said there was a third set of patients as well, people who did not undergo surgery, but were given medicine from the same batches for other reasons. One such patient who died Thursday was a 75-year-old man, he said.
State officials in the district have confiscated shipments of ciprofloxacin and ibuprofen.
Roopchand Siras, a barber from the village of Amsena whose wife died Monday after undergoing sterilization, said health officials had “ordered that the medicines should be seized,” and came to his house to collect the remaining pills. Another resident, Bedan Bai, said her granddaughter began vomiting an hour after taking her first dose of ciprofloxacin and later died.
The Chhattisgarh state government said it had halted the distribution of drugs made by two Indian pharmaceutical companies, Medisafe Spirit and Medicare Spirit. “Complaints were received against the two companies for supplying substandard medicines,” a statement posted on Twitter by the state government said.
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Haven't seen anything in my Globe since, and that's no big $urpri$e. Reminds of the rape crisis that was never resolved but was dropped. India passed a few laws, nothing changed, but so what? The mind-manipulating mental trigger was placed in your mind to be activated when needed.
That is to say nothing of the totally ignored bride burnings or military tensions with Pakistan in seldom-seen Kashmir. What I do get is the same old reinforcing slop regarding Muslims along with related handfuls and handfuls of Islamic extremism and terrorism articles day after day in my Jewish War Daily.
Time to divert attention with India's version of Waco:
"Police clash with Indian guru’s supporters" by Nirmala GeorgeAssociated Press November 19, 2014
NEW DELHI — Thousands of devotees of an Indian spiritual leader who is wanted for questioning in a 2006 murder case fought running battles with police Tuesday outside the guru’s heavily fortified ashram in northern India.
He didn't mind his manners?
About 190 people, including more than 100 security forces, were injured in the melee as authorities tried to move in and arrest 63-year-old Sant Rampal, police said.
After hours of fighting, police armed with tear gas, batons, and bulldozers still had not managed to break into the compound in Haryana state. By nightfall, police broke through half of a 20-foot wall but then stopped out of fears it was booby trapped and would explode.
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The standoff, which had been simmering since last week, escalated Tuesday after police blared warnings on megaphones and then fired tear gas into Rampal’s complex.
Police had tried to flush out Rampal and his supporters by cutting electricity and water to the compound for several days.
Isn't that a war crime?
Even as the clashes raged, there were reports that the guru had left. Ashram spokesman Raj Kapoor told Press Trust of India that Rampal was unwell and was being treated at an undisclosed location. But authorities said they were confident he was still inside the complex....
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"Police arrest guru ending India standoff" Associated Press November 20, 2014
NEW DELHI — Police arrested a controversial religious leader Wednesday at his sprawling ashram in northern India, ending a standoff in which six people died and hundreds were injured.
Jawahar Yadav, a Haryana state government spokesman, said police had arrested Sant Rampal, 63, and taken him away in an ambulance. The self-styled guru was to undergo a medical exam and be taken to Chandigarh, the state capital, where he was to appear in court Friday.
The 63-year-old Hindu guru is wanted for questioning in a 2006 murder case but has repeatedly ignored orders to appear in court.
Riot police tried to storm the ashram in Haryana state on Tuesday, but Rampal’s followers, some using guns, rocks, and batons, fought them off, authorities said. About 200 people were hurt, including security forces.
On Wednesday, the guru’s followers handed over to police the bodies of four women who had apparently died inside the 12-acre complex, about 110 miles from New Delhi. Earlier in the day, a woman and an 18-month-old child died in a hospital after leaving the ashram.
The circumstances of the deaths were not clear. Autopsies were being conducted and police were investigating.
Shriniwas Vashisht, the Hareyana police director general, said many of the people holed up with Rampal were held against their will or were used as human shields to prevent police action.
We've seen this script before.
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You know where all this belongs?
"With World Toilet Day, UN hopes to show global life-saving potential" by Randall Hackley, Bloomberg News November 20, 2014
LONDON — At least 10 million children under age 5 have died since 2000 because they had no access to a basic toilet, said a report from WaterAid, an international development organization.
Talk about a Holocaust™!
To call attention to sanitation as a developmental priority in a world where cellphones outnumber toilets, the United Nations designated Wednesday as World Toilet Day.
Odd thing is both receive deposits of shit.
About 2.5 billion, or 35 percent, of the planet’s 7 billion people have no basic sanitation facilities such as toilets and latrines, the United Nations says. An estimated 1.8 billion drink fecally contaminated water, according to World Health Organization/UNICEF figures.
You gotta boil it first then, right?
Yet the water and sanitation picture is improving in some regions, said Jack Sim, the Singapore-based founder of the World Toilet Organization, which spurred Wednesday’s UN events.
Yeah, good thing the money-junkie globalist cla$$ that has led us to this point while enriching itself is improving the situation.
Once again, my news is nothing more than back-slapping, agenda-pushing garbage.
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In India, which accounts for about 60 percent of Earth’s residents without toilets, the government has set Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birthday, in 2019, as its target for achieving ‘‘total sanitation,’’ including access to toilets for all 1.2 billion residents.
I know, I know, I should be happy just to see the Great Soul's name in my war paper.
Every year, about 600,000 Indians die from diarrhea. Each minute, an estimated 290,000 gallons of human excrement enters the Ganges River, the revered waterway that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised to clean.
The stench must be unbearable, and they literally and metaphorically dumped shit on his ashes.
India’s 50 percent open-defecation rate compares with a 3 percent rate in Bangladesh and 1 percent in China, according to a May report by WHO and Unicef.
While campaigning last year, Modi declared that he would construct ‘‘toilets first, temples later.’’
‘‘Let’s be optimistic,’’ Sim said. Modi represents the future, and those reluctant to accept installing toilets across the country should ‘‘think of the toilet as something normal, a lifestyle, sell it as a fashion, a status symbol.’’
Why must we be constantly sold shit when it is all allegedly for our own good anyway?
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Time to flush this with the rest of the feces in the toilet.
Suddenly, Sri Lanka Presidential Elections Become a Real Contest
I'm not really interested, sorry.
