to gas crisis, european union member states are being told to use 15 percent less gas until next march rushes president vladimir putin is wanting that supplies sent through the north stream. one pipeline which have already been reduced, could be cut off completely. well that says to up to date, this is dw, lie from berlin. stick around though up next is doc felt looking at the indian doctor's checking women into having unnecessary surgeries. i'm available. hm. and. and for watching, take care of his school is establishing in she june, ping, president of the global power join on any criticism of his regime. isn't it in the bud? ah, he's part of

a whole system which believes his time with china's president, she ging paying starts july 30th on d. w. ah ah, that might be on without me from center. how can you remove such an important part of your body? just because the doctor tells you to dig now bad and under one band a month and i was afraid i am young. i was afraid for my life. i cafe with josh a strange phenomenon as occurring amongst indian sugar cane cutters. i do work here in our region alone, and there are more than

a 100000 young women who no longer have yet to receive. it is very strange, you, jasper, that my fellow for love. i tried in the last few years and the maharishi try reaching one out of every 3 female agricultural workers has lost their uterus. the global average is only 3 percent them. unlimited. doctor said that my uterus was not functioning to have to be removed. if i house the my luck, i'm going to have when these women go to the doctor complaining of a regular or heavy ministration. what poor stomachache i was, they are always told to do a hysterectomy, barry the nozzle of a different view. these are major surgeries and bring about premature menopause in young women. if they don't remove the uterus, it's a problem for us. they are less productive. and if they get cancer, they are no longer useful. in india, some 1000000 workers are sent to the sugar cane fields every year. the country is

one of the world's largest turco producers. how can we explain this incredibly high rate of hysterectomies among female workers? industries along the river banks is something which is no more acceptable thing, a slab one. want to consider the human health of the country or the publishing health as a, as a priority or cd. while i am from these women are suffering from acute toxic exposure. if i'm la, are engine sugar cane catchers? the victims of poisoning. oh oh. oh ah ah

rubber. marty has been working in these fields and she was 10 years old. come on, we have to speed up. and i think that she works 10 hours every day under the blazing sun with only one day off per month. we have to get up at 3 am to work in these cane fields. i'm sweating all over and it will be worse this afternoon. he suffers not only from the heat but also from a very premature menopause. at 26 property had to undergo an irreversible operation . a total hysterectomy, the removal of the uterus and the ovaries. what are the, what? i'm what it the doctor said i had to have my uterus removed, otherwise i would get cancer. so i had the hysterectomy. and since the operation

i've had trouble working, it hurts me at night and it hurts me when i been down like this. about the life i my family has to help me. who else can i ask? i had to take my young son out of school to help me. he had to quit school. i do with it. if i don't work, what we eat, i mean to day she is 33 years old. that looks much older. and there are many cases like probabilities in the region. an unknown evil has been spreading and recent years around the bead district. this agricultural region is called the sugar belt. thousands of hector's of sugar cane fields are used for processing and export. here the testimonies of female came matters without wounds, are becoming more and more common. what is this evil that eats away at the sugar

cane workers? one woman is fighting to find answers for the past 6 years. manisha truckler, a social worker has been traveling the region to record all cases of hysterectomies this morning, accompanied by camina her assistant. she is in cut water manisha started to investigate this issue 6 years ago. when she was approached by a sugar cane cutter, who confided that she had had her uterus removed at the age of 20. since then she has been fervently collecting stories of women who no longer have a uterus authority level and couldn't get lyla gentle. dental bish, lose of you who have had the uterus removed, raise your arm and he got busy with i, lilian, this is dawn. one, the 23456 at and the one who left with her mother and all 7 and her own school every day. i need is out when i did, she is out bernhardt that's 8 in this village alone. i don't like that.

i like all the details or no to down to support the investigation for some entity which of these are intimate details that are usually taboo. and these villages either by far london will learn. i had a stomachache and was bleeding heavily learning on finding some of these items. i probably wouldn't be able to salute an id with that. google google headaches. and a lot of them are they are i feel your periods, regular log setting manually? no, always irregular. yeah. our guy i was on on could you or so when was your operation a 6 years ago? when, what does i hate you? problems. like many of the sugar cane cutters in our area have had his to retinal miscarry. it was the large number as a one problem. regardless,

most of them have undergone the surgery to very young aid. had it filled me with the most important problem you i am, i did then to go to buy church. bish, regardless at the heartbreak of brittany i in our region alone, there are more than $100000.00 young women who no longer have a year tourist monday. this is very strange. i just forgot by saying as layla by guide. yet manisha interviewed gynecologist and researched hysterectomies. she learned to read the medical files of the women who underwent a surgery. here is the fall of a woman who was operated on at the age of $25.00. i mean, oh, by the ultrasound is clear. your ovaries completely normal. wow. yeah. it could be, according to the activists. and the majority of the cases, the symptoms described in the files did not justify the surgery. might this woman was healthy? no problem. i just, i always thought of my luck and when these women go to the doctor with irregular or

heavy menstruation, no letter or stomach aco here they are always prescribe a hysterectomy dairy than nasa of a different view. oh, in the safety of their homes, women talk about their experiences. often for the 1st time, sheila was 22 years old when she had her operation. today she is 32. 0 wow. said you needed a hysterectomy. i had a stomach ache, and a woman from the village told me to go to the hospital se what was wrong. i was hospitalized immediately and they wouldn't let me leave iraq play a dozen back of after a simple ultrasound. the doctor prescribed a total hysterectomy. the uterus and ovaries were removed to garda. what? sheila, like all the other women we met, was not made aware of the side effects. my aggressive a plethora for my father, my health problems have not been resolved on the pain is still there. it is even

gotten worse, mom got in my, my neck hurts my wrists, hurt my whole body aches. sometimes i can't even feel my legs. and if i carry heavy things, my scar hurts. it's very painful. i need to set up. the body pays a very high price for this operation harder. you see problems like osteoporosis. i pain in the ne mazda in the body here was that man fired to collect a debt more a hard to help with you. all petition, delaware new ang operation was done 10 years ago. we saw she has had many pools since she was 22 years old. i mean, a woman with men of pools, at this age, has many emotional problems due to hormonal deficits. and can fall into severe depression of how many total dancing done. did you know gum? no, no, it's true. sometimes i trial day. what can i do? i got either 10 years after an operation that cost as much as 6 months of her work . sheila is still in debt collector, how much did you borrow?

30000. 30000 rupees as 300 euros land to pay the hospital and the doctor. and she is still in depth. how much was you? loan 5 percent? 5 percent for every $100.00 rupees. she gives 5 to her employer. ah, sheila isn't attached to her employer. he is a man hired by a sugar factory to recruit agricultural labourers. ah, manisha denounces the system that coerces women into having a hysterectomy. these women are exploited and used. they are among the poorest workers in india for whom very few protective measures exist. mm. in india, we call them back. well because they sure do gosh, in their tribes. most of the sugar again, hardware stores. busy bared their tribal labors and the bullied labors. that means lucy, do gosh,

easy traditional par mopar glass discrimination. because the people who didn't have access to be pi immense and access to would be knowledge and education. be beard. they were loudly toiling people. they go with their family, how to camp wrong. we don't food because they do have very hard work. they start early in there and be out of date on the beast. use of boot. actually harder with the labor laws are hardly implemented in india and go there are reports in terms of trade unions to organize them, but they don't succeed in getting securing basic human rights. and that's labor condition is very pathetic. mm. mm. we went to one of the

villages where many labourers live to try to understand the situation before the cutting season, which will last 6 months. the sugar factories need to recruit some 1000000 workers who come from all over my restaurant. the sugar companies send recruiting agents the so called look are down to higher entire family, the mach, i down this pay directly by the sugar factories to ensure the productivity of the workers in the field. oh yeah. why then i'm just a lot of the he see these workers we take from the village to the factory. i manage their money and their expenses, their hospital bills on their food shopping with all of that, i manage how i give them their money only when it is vital. the rest of the end of the season was your daughter. on this october day, it's time to leave for the sugar cane fields. the whole village prepares for the move coupon hard work, but also by the beginning,

but also today of course, and they know it. they have to get up at 3 am to go to work in the field, either below involved legs are low, many women complain of pain. yes. and when that happens, they are taken to the hospital. there they are treated, they are given medicine. they are operated on and then they go back to work in the field. but when they are in the hospital, they give us back their wages recommended you to us from italy. ah, yes. if they don't remove their uterus, it's a problem for us. they are less productive and if they get cancer, they no longer useful. we little bit women are operated on to keep them productive . no more children, periods or pain. he believes a mundane operation. that's almost inevitable. wrecker is already thinking about a hysterectomy at age 20. she suffers from her current and violent pain, the cause of which she does not know. i got my boy, i can't get back to you. well, me. i have a very bad headache because i'm so tired. i am exhausted in my stomach hurts

a lot. oh, i love bought out hulu. mcadam told her about the operation for the end of the season. yeah. since she was 10 years old, reca has been working in the sugar cane fields with her family. this year she will be accompanied by her husband, her 2 children, her mother and her sisters. they have only a few hours left to prepare their provisions. they have a long road ahead of them. like 99 with reco belongs to one of the poorest cath in india. at the age of 13, her father forced her into an arranged marriage. at 15 she gave birth to her 1st child, her daughter, who will also work this year every

year, some 1000000 seasonal workers go to work in the fields. one of the biggest migrations of workers in the world, 12 hours on the road at night, and without stops with these workers go to the sugar belt. a plantation that's 1000 kilometers long in the west of the country. there they will cut and collect sugar came to supply the processing plants for the season. the factory set up these tent camps on vast, empty plots of land. there is no electricity or running water. this is where the sugar workers from all over the country will live.

ah, we find reca here. she arrived a couple of days ago. he has been out of the cattle. this is our bathroom where we wash ourselves. oh yeah, we died a sorry to make a door. yeah. about that and here again, a toilet. i come children. yeah, of course. our little hut we live here. it is our small house for, for, for 6 months. we sleep here. we cook here. we might have been with like let us, we are sad for the children for the lack of hygiene and sanitary facilities in these camps. can cause sugar cane cutters to develop infections that contribute to their gynecological pain. a during been

says, women should be explained how to maintain their opinion. hygiene. they should be using clean clothes if they are using and how do i maintain it to that they don't catch an infection because this is the dime their majority of the females have unity tract infection and other infections and no opinion region. because in venice is b, it changes and without men's is the be, it is as a dick which prevent from infection and once minutes is a start this be it changes and then it to do it. but it is, poses these females to vaginal infections with it's 6 p m and the men leave to deliver the stock of the day to the factory. it's an opportunity to talk discreetly with reca and the women of her village. they tell us about the pressure that they are under despite their health problems,

with our employ yells at us, if we don't work in your so it's very hard even we are feeling very bad. he hits us to look at our meals that are husbands, that we're not working hard enough and that we need to pay back and wages for this reason, when the mcadam and the doctors offer them a hysterectomy, they accept but they're looking at them and look, i stomach was hurting a lot, so i had my uterus removed, the doctor said my uterus wasn't working very well and that there was no treatment in it, had to be removed. i have to connie it down. we think that if we don't have the operation, we will have problems at work a lot. i'm in too much pain in the doctor tells me to have surgery and i'll have my uterus removed. i can't afford not to work

for several years. india has been in fierce competition with present when it comes to sugar protection. with some 30000000 tons produced in 2019 the country. finally ranked number one in the world with it will go to countries like to buy afghanistan and of course europe only 19 to be the post abra. do feel that it really was listed in sixties and seventies. they became more prominent and why they wrote to 200 because everyone bought or to be a leader to work team became a very important cash crop. and people are particularly part of most the quality readers they could get, you know, good returns for the a great big baby growing. and the state gave a lot of support in terms of irrigation and electricity power,

or to pump the water to irrigate the crop. so, sugar came became a very important, not only economic grub, but also politically ended the sugar barrens. del greer did go to bear all calm interest groups all over the state. this is sugar again, bronze a back out on guard. they control the. busy mars prostrate economically and politically, ah, in 2020 my roster alone provided half of the country's exports and recorded a 20 percent increase in production. sugar cane cutters have never worked so hard. is the manager aware that many of his workers have had surgery? he has vaguely heard about the problem many

so the keen cutters have undergone hysterectomies. do you know about their very serious side effects? since these women only worked for you was but i was seeing that the women who walked for you had hysterectomies so that they can work every day of the month. oh my god, you know, i don't know anything about it. it's not my field. i don't know anything about medicine. if there is a problem, they can go to court and tell the politicians. frankly, i have nothing to do with it. raising awareness among politicians is exactly what manisha has been trying to do. we find the activist as she continues her field investigation. many times she has witnessed the same story. the doctors talk about the risk of cancer, while the records show only mild infections. she wants to introduce us to santa by

a sugar cane cutter, who escaped a hysterectomy with ha, yes, this is, you know, the local to the level thermal again, sort of the doctor told me i could have cancer in my uterus, had to be removed to had it look at the biopsy report, it's negative, there is no cancer round in round or out of mouth, but if a doctor tells you about cancer, it's normal to be afraid. hm. okay. now there lay. i think she just had an infection at the opening of the uterus as a test will likely will. thanks to many, she went to get a 2nd opinion at a public hospital. the doctor told her that no hysterectomy was required and prescribed a 3 month treatment. i'd well i'd ne, ignorant that i would, that these women dont know anything about their bodies and they get cheated enough . they are in pain and they want to stop it. they want the problem to go away. so they agreed to have their uterus removed, even if they don't know if it's really appropriate. besides,

they are not offered all the treatments that they are told jenny, that there are no other solutions. so read my birth of the gold, gone to linkedin because of breath good. which of them did when that he was a foreigner upward fee's. a. i can't imagine that a doctor could cheat them, that he could prescribe a procedure that is not needed to do. and these doctors make money by threatening them with cancer. for example, i'm not saying that all doctors in the area involved, there are some long had now. so i think in the hollow, but the 2nd thought that the sense of what of what i said you. okay impatient to get their patients. these doctors do not hesitate to go directly to the villages or not. they regularly organized for you screenings to attract a maximum number of women. mike, mike was i learned, got my wife had a problem there. had my wife kept telling me that during her menstrual cycle, in fact, she was bleeding too much. my mother died because of this. and so i was afraid of my day to day. the news came to

a village that doctor gov was giving free consultations, sawyer. this news was given to us by medical assistance. i but my wife went through an emergency count, organized by doctor golf, 20023000 women with her. thank. she was examined, ultrasound was telling them everything was free, and they told her that you have to have an emergency surgery today would be like, fill out, the other person, got all of them. mm. why would organizers and doctors encourage these procedures? mm. before leaving the region, we collected medical records of women. we met who had undergone surgery in the last 2 years. ah, wish this been maybe because of infection persistent infection, lake majority of the females are having chronic be id chronic. so if i did, this is the cause of infections in them. if this is infection treat with medicine, he was just having infection. when they're over,

these are normal. this is an algorithm. it's a young female. if you had the moving over here at this young age, this is going to create a problem in her future life as it helps in oxygen metabolism, like towards mid to one is it is important for your bonehead, for your cardiovascular health, even for your mental health if we have some infection enough finger, we can just drop it off. we have to 1st find out the cause of that infection, treat that infection with medicine. and if there is any problem that is gambling, or be some major problem, then only me to quite amputation. so you can just remove an organ because it's having some problem, making them in the b, dest, the epi, center of the problem. many shall talk, clay says she has discovered an elaborate fraudulent scheme. in 5 years, she has collected hundreds of testimonies together with her daughter. she has

gathered enough evidence to denounce the so called hysterectomy market. these surgeries are now built by private clinics between 60900 euros, which is twice as expensive as a child birth. who by an update who, by an okay, i mean the, it's terrifying ah, terrifying head that the local doctors abuse this practice. that's why there are so many hysterectomies on such a large scale. it agreed my the doctors have set up the whole system to make a lot of money. a hey, arnie da morris then tell. oh i took it up at the dinner. he still only heard that in 2018 manisha went to mum by the economic capital, accompanied by female sugar cane cutters. at a press conference, she denounced the private clinics and this very profitable market. the scandal made headlines and the local media, the government intervened and said they wanted to put an end to these abusive

operations. they set up controls. since then in the city of feed, the number of operations has dropped from $120.00 per month to 80. this is still very high. in this city of 200000 inhabitants, private clinics are everywhere. and they all boast of performing hysterectomies. they are among the most expensive operations. we go to one of these clinics where hysterectomies are performed every week. on this day some 10 women are in the waiting room. most of them are agricultural workers. there is the doctor said i had fibroids in my uterus was very swollen. he said it was better to remove it. it wouldn't get better with medication that i needed surgery, operation cost or the equivalent of 8 months of work in the fields. she also had to go into debt. we meet doctor golf in his office. he was the one who prescribed

a total hysterectomy to santa by due to the infection. we met with his care was she said that she just you and she did leg all the examinations. she had everything and she said that she was saying that she needed to me, but then she met another. and you don't say that she didn't need to me. how did it then? maybe i don't think maybe she's like, don't. i think she maybe me just said that some of the will the pro fees of some things with the i think the it is not true nowadays. angler digging the permission on top of the permission after the guy taking on july 30. only when you use a permission then the people are being according to him cases,

the removal of the uterus for simple infection do not occur anymore. he invites us to follow the morning operation. a sugar cane cutter will have her uterus removed. he tells us it is for very good reason. and they haven't been doing enough to submit those. i do remember everybody. you can look up there. do you find a lot of that kind of cases here? many people tell me what the cost is on this is when on dr. golf, they did not explain the striking and frequent cases. the 5 point these fibers could be the cause of the intense and chronic pain that these women experience. but

then why do so many female agricultural workers develop such conditions in the region? in the sugar belt? no one asks questions. women get sick as early as 20 years old. they suffer and they are operated on. we will have to look for answers elsewhere. how do you explain that? so many women are suffering maybe a period year and we're mature. susan is there we go. don't be willing to serve mr . science to abortion, to the environment. about best decides still now a very few studies are dead and no study has ling this. so fibroid or endometriosis, widow. i exposure of heavy metals. so i have gone to the trade to add another phone doctor. they have studied for 3 heavy metals for the lead for cadmium. and my judy, the fall that be a few odds of females who had fibroids, who would expose to get members could therapy,

a link between the pain this woman experienced that leads to these mass hysterectomies and environmental pollution. this is an angle we want to explore. engine agriculture uses a lot of pesticides, some of which are banned in europe. we returned to the bead region with a kid, provided by a french laboratory. this kid is the only one able to detect the presence of more than 1800 different pollutants. and 49 metals we collect strands of hair from 5 sugar cane cutters who have undergone hysterectomy. what do you want to say here? i can grade. i know that i've gotten a good idea when i yes, you'll oh, oh,

the samples were sent to france to be analyzed in a laboratory. one months later, we received the results, which were very worrying. mm. mm. mm. mm. the analysis revealed the presence of pesticides. but that was not the worst part. the woman's hair contained metals and unprecedented quantities never seen before in the laboratory. on our survey nettle suggestion and continued national, although young we observed poisoning from barium contamination and wanted in order to speak about toxicity. you have to be precise about what acute means are they are sized because it is really quite high at 80 times, or even 170 times the threshold of chronic toxicity in water. we found them. these examinations is something far beyond what we are used to encountering and observing the dog claim the observer. bombing upon his officially doth guess contests nor

don't the noise. down among the 1st reactions are gastro, intestinal pain, abdominal pains that the fibroids occur. so symptoms could be fibroids to certain skin diseases where you cardiac problems or your severe fatigue in it or given the high levels of barium. we found that we are sure that these women are suffering from acute toxicity. the 5 women had the same results. if our mother is an environmental issue at the origin under her, says he during normal 1000 mm. this land is highly contaminated, barium and rare earth metals occur naturally in this environment, but in very small quantities. they are used in the chemical and high tech industry, as well as in the production of agricultural fertilizers. they are highly soluble in water and can spread over hundreds of kilometers and rivers, and water tables, and pollute large areas. this pollution could come from electronic waste and

industrial sites, even if they are far away in india, 70 percent or for human requirement for water is of completed through ground water table. but a 40 percent of the diseases nowadays are no emanating from the water that has been used on this one water table. so i'm in the center water commission and the report has been emphatically saying that in all, all the 45 major, it was in india rama for drug angel's, not a mother. good audi. the, the heavy mental content has been over and above the wall health organization limits. and as well as the bureau of indian standard, setting up industries allowing household or domestic or discharges influence into the reverse. i'm and industries along the river banks is something which is now no more a acceptable thing,

a for one. what to consider the human health of the country or the population health as a, as a priority the joint and abdominal pain that these women suffer could be due to their work on these contaminated lands. the hysterectomies performed as a consequence do not solve their problems. on the contrary, they worse than their state by making these women h quicker. we send the results of our tests by email to many shar from the reports you shared with us, the situation looks really alarming. it's something to be concerned about. and for that, we need to understand the causes. if we are able to know the causes, we will be able to work on finding solutions.

if there is contain denise in the soil and water, then it could effect every one. children to me yesterday we went to the village of god, kara julie, which is one kilometer away from the village of cat water. in one family. there were 3 people who had symptoms of poisoning. some children too. we are going to talk to the doctors in bead and the people working in the government laboratories. we will also contact the people who work in water testing

laboratories. we have to 1st understand ourselves what is going on. then we can educate the people concerned. if such cases are reported in the whole district, we will have to work on a larger scale and are preserving also to show the untruths to preserve their health. when you have to remove the contaminant content, it's not fatal waiver. they need to get away from the source in went to this case, it's their environment of your given the high level, it's easy to conclude. we will have to get away from that environment. it can be afforded to one or 2 can be not afforded to leon. that's another problem. how tell him way or not in problem? where so sir, no problem. we tried to contact the health

authorities, marashi try to inform them of our test results. numbers got 19 go by needed. okay, please got it. okay, good. okay, getting what will happen when you, when you but he got giant since the covered 19 pandemic, it has been difficult to get any one on the phone. our calls and written requests have so far gone unanswered. in the meantime, money shes efforts continue to inspire and southern marsh tra, and the sugar belt people are starting to raise their voices so that the problem is no longer ignored. 4 years ago, a parent conte director of a local radio association learned of the situation, faced by female, came totters in her region. the dog. oh, yes. yes. so

she then decided to create a special station to give them a voice and make their voices heard. every week, a partner goes to these villages to do prevention work, and collect testimonies of women who have undergone this operation. and who regretted today this afternoon. she has an interview with san gaeta, and a 26 year old sugar cane cutter who had surgery a few months ago. their interview is recorded. what all your symptoms are that are so horton, i was bleeding a lot in my stomach, hurt for how many years did you have this problem? 2 to 3 years. like thousands of others on gaeta had her uterus. ronan moved under pressure from a doctor. the young woman refused at 1st, but her husband and family pushed her to have the operation, thinking it would save her life. and he was angry to has since fallen into depression as the mother of 2 children. she regrets that she will never be able to

give birth again. andre, yes, i live. i wanted to have another child who got but i had this problem and i was afraid to you regretted england being fin avenue. yes, i regret it. but ever unless i am young and i was afraid for my life as uterus is a part of the body that is very important for a woman. if we don't have a room, how can we give birth to a child? i can't. how can i remove such an important part of your body? just because the doctor tells you to up we are. do you understand how serious this is? big now. bad and yes. and a martin vera. nothing angular. a video of i yet can cervical lou along out with if we have cancer of the uterus, what only then should we have a hysterectomy? there is no need to do

a hysterectomy otherwise. that's why i go around telling people not to have a hysterectomy. that's what they look like. i like this. i mean i said we're looking every actually many days. is that better? yeah, late. but don't we try like days? many of them are they didn't just do one example offered. we're in this area. you can have many, many meetings or to problems which we are dealing in in our building. so every time they've something we have to think of all the broad of anger and we have repeated. or that you should stop from thing to with sanky test testimony will be air to night. unders community radio station a he yes. i know my number's go for the all you know,

any night you have one poor them. whether these are the ones of it. so it is a striking example that our partner hopes will raise awareness among other fema agricultural workers and dissuade them from taking this action. all of these women and activists have already won their 1st fight. the female came cutters have emerge is from the shadows. their problems are getting attention in india, one of the world's largest check our producers, hulu. it all new ideas in conventions, down what's drive the economy, the engine as social progress. but do they really make our lives easier? and if this what our future will look like, oh, made injury in 30 minutes on

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