‘Surgeries’ fail to jolt govt out of slumber

 CON DOCS Officials Fail To Act Despite Reports Carried In ‘TOI’ Of Illegal Hysterectomies On Lambada Women in Medak District Roli Srivastava | TNN Hyderabad: An extreme case of criminal activity like this should have made the government machinery jump up in immediate action. But two weeks after ‘TOI’ first reported cases of large scale [...]

కడుపు కోత

కాసులకోసం మెదక్‌ జిల్లాలో ప్రైవేటు ఆసుపత్రుల మోసం గిరిజన, బడుగు మహిళలపై వల వందల మందికి గర్భసంచి తొలగింపు స్వచ్ఛంద సంస్థ అధ్యయనంలో వెల్లడి హైదరాబాద్‌, నర్సాపూర్‌ న్యూస్‌టుడే గతంలో గ్రామాల్లో ఆరోగ్య కార్యకర్తలు ఇంటింటికీ తిరుగుతూ ”మీ ఇంట్లో అందరూ బాగున్నారా? ఎవరికైనా ఆరోగ్య సమస్యలు ఉన్నాయా?” అని అడిగేవారు. ఇప్పుడు ప్రభుత్వ వైద్య సేవలు పడకేశాయి. ఆ స్థానాన్ని ప్రైవేటు ఆసుపత్రులు ఆక్రమించాయి. మెదక్‌ జిల్లాలో ఇప్పుడు ప్రైవేటు వైద్యులు మహిళలు పనిచేసే చోటికి [...]

Con docs rampant across AP

HYSTERECTOMY-III Roli Srivastava | TNN Hyderabad: The cases of hysterectomy performed on women in villages of Medak by general surgeons and local doctors is not limited to this district alone. Hyderabad-based doctors say that hysterectomies (removal of uterus) are rampant across the state and women are conned into paying huge sums for this surgery where [...]

Hysterectomies continue in Medak

Surgeries On Young Women Still On Though Doctors Deny Reports Roli Srivastava | TNN Kowdipally/Narsapur (Medak): Hysterectomy is suddenly a familiar medical term in these mandals of Medak district where hundreds of Lambada tribal women have undergone the procedure, some as young as 23 and 25. Villagers of these mandals say that over the last [...]

Lambadas lose uterus, savings to ‘docs’

Hysterectomies Done On Women Aged Between 20-40 For Ailments As Routine As Abdominal Pain Roli Srivastava | TNN Kanvaram (Medak): Menopause at 25 may sound like the latest in disturbing urban health trends. But Lambada women aged between 20 and 40 in this village in Medak have been pushed to menopause much before time allegedly [...]

Marriage for eight-year-old?

Activists and officials in Andhra stop mass marriage where the oldest bride was 8-yr-old Roli Srivastava Hyderabad: Social activists and government officials last week intervened and stopped a mass marriage of children aged between 6 and 14 years being held in Kagazmaddur village, barely 50 kilometres from Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh.

Child heart surgeries put on backburner

G V R Subba Rao HYDERABAD: A year after two children with congenital heart diseases died while protesting the lack of access to medical care, the government’s programme of paying for their heart surgeries has slowed down to a crawl.

AP CM, hospitals con kids

Court asks state govt about subsidies given to private hospitals for treating poor patients free of cost   Roli Srivastava   Hyderabad: Private hospitals in Hyderabad have come under scrutiny after the high court asked the Andhra Pradesh government to submit a list of subsidies they were offered for treating a certain number of poor [...]

Greedy doctors con 600 tribal women into surgery

Advise them to get hysterectomy done when the ailment could be best treated with antibiotics Roli Srivastava Hyderabad: A surgery to treat an ailment that can be cured with antibiotics may sound far fetched, but in a small mandal of Medak district, about 70 km from here, such medical treatment is a reality. Last Sunday, [...]

Happily ever after, no child marriages here

AP village shuns the evil custom  3 July 2005 Gangireddula Gudem (AP) Tucked away from civilisation, a revolution has  unfolded in this village in Medak district, about 70 kms from Hyderabad.Gangireddula Gudem, a hamlet inhabited by 43 families of a beggar community, has made a brave beginning for the country: this village has stopped its [...]