-Down to Earth Undergoing hysterectomy at younger ages can have adverse health impacts including osteoporosis and cardiovascular diseases The rise in cases of hysterectomy or the surgical procedure for uterus removal in India has been a cause of concern in recent years, with critics complaining that doctors are too quick to take out the uterus at the smallest sign of trouble. While it is difficult to gauge the actual extent of the problem...

-TheCitizen.in There are no sweet moment for Sugarcare farm labourers “My body aches, my hands and legs hurt a lot, but I still have many trucks to load. If I delay it the workload will increase. I can eat only after the task is done,” said Sarika Laxman Chole, a 25-year-old labourer working on a sugarcane field at this village in Beed. She works from 8 am to midnight, to earn Rs 300-350...

-THe Telegraph Sugarcane labour contractors run a system that discriminates against women by appearing to be gender-neutral After all, it is not genital mutilation. Or vagina sealing. Those are some of the agonizing traditional rituals for girls in various countries intended to make them attractive to men and sexually faithful to their husbands. Attempts to put an end to these practices began in the 1970s, and the United Nations requested healthcare workers...

-The Hindu Business Line Cane-cutting contractors are unwilling to hire women who menstruate, so hysterectomies have become the norm Beed: “You will hardly find women with wombs in these villages. These are villages of womb-less women,” says Manda Ugale, gloom in her eyes. Sitting in her tiny house in Hajipur village, in the drought-affected Beed district of Maharashtra’s Marathwada region, she struggles to talk about the painful topic. Women in Vanjarwadi, where 50...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: India's largest body of doctors claimed on Tuesday that the Centre's proposed National Health Protection Scheme that seeks to reimburse hospitals for cashless services to patients may "eliminate small and medium hospitals" through unrealistic reimbursement rates. The reimbursement rates proposed under the NHPS are "very low" and will make it "impractical" to provide quality services, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) said, releasing figures from its own costing exercise...