The women living in the Beed district of Maharashtra are getting their wombs removed due to poverty and rudimentary living arrangements, Indian media reports said citing local administration.
Women living in this district are mostly cane cutters who migrate to the sugar belt of western Maharashtra during the cane-cutting season. In a bid to increase work productivity and to avoid daily wage loss, they are getting hysterectomies which have long-lasting adverse effects on their health and can lead to hormonal imbalance, calcium deficiency, and constant body ache, among other things.
