RAIPUR India (Reuters) - Nem Bai was told getting a tubectomy would be an easy process -that she'd be home by sunset, a few hundred rupees richer and back to work in the fields within two days.
Instead, the 35-year-old mother-of-five was incapacitated within hours of the surgery at a mass sterilisation camp in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh on Saturday, her widower told Reuters. She was one of at least 12 women who have died since.
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