Salud

في يناير/كانون الثاني 2012 خضع ما يناهز 53 امرأة لجراحات تعقيم في ولاية بيهار بالهند، في مخيم للتعقيم تديره منظمة غير حكومية مُنحت الاعتماد من الجمعية الصحية الإقليمية، على ما يبدو دون اتباع إجراءات رسمية شفافة. لم تُمنح النساء أية مشورة حول المخاطر والنتائج المحتملة لعملية التعقيم. خضعت للجراحة في مدرسة بدلاً من مستشفى، بشكل غير أخلاقي وفي غياب النظافة الكافية، على يد جراح واحد، على ضوء كشاف، فوق طاولة من طاولات المدرسة، ودون توفر مياه جارية أو قفازات معقمة. تعرضت نساء كثيرات منهن لألم بدني كبير بعد العملية، ثم تقدمن ببلاغات للشرطة.

In January 2012, up to 53 women underwent a sterilization procedure in Bihar, India, at a sterilization camp managed by an NGO which had been granted accreditation by the District Health Society, apparently without following any formal, transparent process. The women had not been given any counseling regarding the potential dangers and outcomes of the sterilization procedures. They were operated on in a school rather than a hospital, in an unsanitary and unethical manner, all by a single surgeon, under torchlight on top of a school desk, and without running water or sanitary gloves.

Rusi Kosev Stanev was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1975 and declared unfit to work in 1990. In 2000, following a request from his stepmother and half-sister, a court declared him partially legally incapacitated without notifying him. Since his relatives declined guardianship, a municipal council officer was appointed his guardian. Without informing Stanev, the guardian requested that he be placed in a social care home for 'people with mental disorders'.

In 2010, Daniel Ng’etich and Patrick Kipng’etich Kirui were arrested by the Public Health Officer, Nandi Central District Tuberculosis Defaulter Tracing Coordinator, who applied to a Magistrate for their imprisonment, alleging that they had failed to take prescribed TB medication. Pursuant to Section 27 of the Public Health Act, the Magistrate ordered that the men be confined for eight months or a satisfactory period for treatment. They remained in prison for 46 days.