Health Ministry directs states to put restrictions on hysterectomy surgery
Through an RTI, Saxena also obtained hysterectomy surgery data performed between April 2010 and October 2010. He proved through data that out of a total of 385 surgeries in the Dausa district of Rajasthan during this period, 286 were done in only three private hospitals.
Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan has written to states, informing them that some medical institutions in India are performing unnecessary hysterectomy surgeries. (Image: Freepik )