Pinned down, shrieking and writhing in pain, these women underwent a tubectomy without any anaesthesia
ALAULI, BIHAR: Dayamani Devi is still in pain after she underwent a tubectomy without anaesthesia last month. She was among 24 rural women who opted for the surgical procedure to prevent pregnancy at two state-run public health centres in Alauli block in Bihar's Khagaria district last month. The standard practice for a tubectomy surgery is to use local anaesthesia. Instead, she was kept conscious while crying and writhing in pain on the operating table.
But, in a sign of just how strong the woman is, she says about a month later that the pain she felt as the blades of a novice intern slice through her body and she wailed in anguish, will go away. But not the “pain of children doing nothing”.
But, in a sign of just how strong the woman is, she says about a month later that the pain she felt as the blades of a novice intern slice through her body and she wailed in anguish, will go away. But not the “pain of children doing nothing”.