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Family planning in India: A woman’s burden
Occasional screams sounded from the operating theater in a rural Indian clinic as a heavily sedated woman named Kajal waited to have her tubes tied, long the country's preferred family planning method. "The anesthesia must not have kicked in," one healthcare worker said outside the facility in the northern village of Bhoodbaral, where a line of women in colorful headscarves waited to undergo the 50-minute procedure, which in India's stretched healthcare system can sometimes be risky. India is set to become the world's most populous nation by mid-year, according to UN figures published Wednesday, overtaking China, where the population shrank last year for the first time since 1960. The Indian government launched a nationwide family planning program in 1952 -- long before societies around the world had even started to destigmatize birth control. But in the decades that followed, as the pill and condoms became the go-to contraceptive methods for millions elsewhere, men in India were subjected in the 1970s to a brutal program of forced sterilization. Since then the focus has shifted to women in India, with tubal ligation as the preferred method of birth control. There is a non-invasive vasectomy available for men but women like Kajal are often convinced by government healthcare workers to undergo the procedure, often with cash incentives of around $25. Kajal, 25, said she and her husband Deepak decided she would undergo the operation since they can barely make ends meet with their three children. "I thought it would make me weak," Deepak, a factory worker, said when asked why he chose not to have a vasectomy. Myths around virility Poonam Muttreja from the Population Foundation of India said Deepak's fears about how a vasectomy -- a reversible, 10-minute procedure -- would affect him were common in what is still a "very patriarchal society". "The most popular myth that exists among both men and women is that a man will lose his virility," Muttreja told AFP. "This is a myth which has no science... but it is a belief. The belief is the reality for people," she said. The health center in Bhoodbaral sterilized more than 180 women compared with just six men from April 2022 to March this year. "People have a misconception that no-scalpel vasectomy for males leads to impotence... This has become a taboo," said Dr Ashish Garg, the facility's medical superintendent. Dangerous Makeshift sterilization clinics that perform tubal ligations on women are common in India, particularly in its vast rural belts where two-thirds of the population live. Usually, it is a safe procedure but in India, this is not always the case. Four women died and nine others were hospitalized last year after getting their tubes tied in the southern state of Telangana. In 2014, at least 11 women died after sterilizations at a makeshift clinic in the central state of Chhattisgarh. Muttreja said the government needs to do more to promote contraception. She also said the solution to getting more men to have the operation was better education. "It's a magical pill... Investing in health and education would have reduced the economic cost to the family and also to the nation," she said. But Harbir Singh, a 64-year-old local resident, still believes that vasectomies rob men of their "strength" needed to work and put food on the table. "The man has to go out and earn... The women make food and stay at home," he said. "What will happen without the man?" The post Family planning in India: A woman’s burden appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
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