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dominance. get his debit head with d w business beyond ah, my theory i'm with our elderly from said her, how can you remove such an important part of your body? just because a doctor tells you to be ignored, 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 a you to receive. it is very strange how you just so that my fellows live, i type 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 had to be removed. if i house the my luck, i'm going to win. these women go to the doctor complaining of a regular or heavy ministration or for stomachache. i said i was, they are always told to do a hysterectomy very than nasa of a different believe 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 sugar 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 slug one word to consider the human health of the country or the publishing health as a, as a priority. a cd while i am for these women are suffering from acute toxic exposure . so formula are engine sugar cane cutters, the victims of poisoning? oh oh oh oh. oh rubber. marty

has been working in these fields and she was 10 years old. come on, we have to speed up and i did that. she worked 10 hours every day under the blazing sun with only one day off per month. when i have we have to get up at 3 am to work in these came to the old hello, 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 $26.00 prop of r. t had to undergo an irreversible operation, a total hysterectomy, the removal of the uterus and the ovaries. what are the, what i'm, what is the doctor said i had to have my leader is 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've 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, today she has 33 years old. that looks much older. 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 cane cutters 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. lovelyn good, lily, gentle, dental bish. news of you who have had the uterus removed, raise your arm and he got at fisheries. i leilani this is dawn. one, the 2345 seat and the one who left with her mother and all 7 and her old school every day i need is out were not ditches out. but her art,

that's 8 in this village alone. you know? yeah. 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 by far not don't, will learn. i had a stomachache and was bleeding heavily and on finding some of these items i probably wouldn't be diluted. i'd even with that. google google headaches. yes. a lot of i know your periods, regular blog setting manually. no worries. irregular. yeah, yeah, i'm our guy. i cobblers and own could you were so when was your operation a 6 years ago? when were does i hate you? probably last night. many of the sugar cane cutters in our area have had his to rattle the sky. he was the large number as the one problem, regardless most of learning for,

for have on take on the surgery to very young aid had a come me with the most important problem you, i am, i did then to get a voucher entropy regardless at the how brit with bridgenet. i'm in our region alone, but there are more than 100000 young women who no longer have a uterus ada. maddie. this is very strange, i just forgot by sadness, lyla, by guys. yet lanesha interviewed gynecologist and researched hysterectomies. she learned to read the medical files of the women who underwent the surgery. here is the fall of a woman who was operated on at the age of $25.00. he, i mean, oh michael with the ultrasound is clear. your ovaries completely normal. wow. yeah, good deal, 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 my lack of when these women go to the doctor with irregular or heavy menstruation, no,

i don't like or stomach aco here. they are always prescribed 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. i went to school, they wouldn't let me leave iraq play a dozen back after a simple ultrasound. the doctor prescribed a total hysterectomy, the uterus and ovaries were removed. oh god, i was sheila, like all the other women we met, was not made aware of the side effects. my aggressive a plethora for my son. my health problems have not been resolved on the pain is still there. it is even gotten worse. mom got in 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 sit out, the body pays the very high price for this operation harder. you see problems like osteoporosis, i pain in the new muscle in the body. i was that man by to collect a debt more a hard. how could y'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 mental pools at this age, it has many emotional problems due to hormonal deficits and can fall into severe depression of how many total dancing done to jude horner 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, 300 euros land to pay the hospital and the doctor. and she is still in debt to say, how much was you loan 5 percent, 5 percent for every $100.00 rupees, she gives 5 to her employer. sheila is indebted to her employer. he is a man hired by a sugar factory to recruit agricultural labourers. manisha denounces the system that coerces women into having a hysterectomy. these women are exploited and used here among the poorest workers in india for whom very few protective measures success in india. we call the backward cause they should do cause in their tribes. most of the should work in hardware stores. they are their tribal labors and bullied labors. that means lucy, do cos is

a traditional part of glass discrimination because the people who didn't have access to be pi immense and access to be knowledge and education be billed. they were largely toiling people. they go with their family, be how to can prom will to field. because if they do a very hard work, they start early and b and b or bid on the beast use of the actual harder with that be. do a 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. ah,

we went to one of the villages where many labourers lived 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 madame to hire entire families. the mac adamus paid directly by the sugar factories to ensure the productivity of the workers in the field. oh, why then i'm just a border. 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 of all of that. i manage how i give them their money only when it is vital . the rest at 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. that hard work. those will be good, but also do it,

of course, and they know it. they have to get up at 3 am to go to work in the field on the bill of own bottled legs on so 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 fields. but when they are in the hospital, they give us back their wages recommended utilized from italy. ah, yes. if they don't remove their uterus, that'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. ricka 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. why my boy, i tell me, i have a very bad headache because i'm so tired. i am exhausted in my stomach, hurts a lot. oh,

hello. hello. 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. live valley with reco belongs to one of the poorest calf and 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. i

know that 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. ah. yes, but the mouth of a cattle. this is our bathroom where we wash ourselves. oh yeah, we died a sorry to make the door. yeah. about that and here again, a toilet i come children. yeah, of course is our little hut we live here. it is our small house for 4 for 6 months . we sleep here, we cook here. who might have been with us and we are sad for the children with the lack of hygiene and sanitary facilities. and these camps can cause sugar cane cutters to develop infections that contribute to their gynecological pain. a during

menz's, women should be explained how to maintain their opinion. hygiene. they should be using clean clothes that 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 bins is ph changes. and without men's is the be, it is as a dig which prevents from infection and once minutes of the start this be it changes and then it to do it to dispose of these females to vaginal infections with it's 6 pm 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 enough very much, you're so hit very hard even when we are feeling very bad, he hits us to look at our meals at her husband's that we are not working hard enough and that we need to pay back our wages. for this reason, when the mcadam and the doctors offer them a hysterectomy, they accept that look in all of them i look at my stomach was hurting a lot. so i had my uterus removed, the doctor said my uterus wasn't working very well in that there was no treatment in it, had to be removed. i stephanie brown. we think that if we don't have the operation, we will have problems at work. 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 appears 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. ah, it will go to countries like to buy afghanistan and of course, europe only 19 to be the post. robert do feel that it really was listed in sixties and seventies. they became more prominent and why they wrote to 200 because everyone thought, or to be a leader, to where team became a very important cash crop. and people, particularly part of most the quality readers they could get, you know, good returns for the a great big baby growing. and they gave a lot of support in terms of irrigation and electricity power

to pump the water to irrigate the crop. so sugar came and became a very important not only economic, rob. busy but also politically ended the sugar barrens del created go to bear all calm interest groups all over the state. this is sugar cane barons occurred on guard the control beach. marta was paid 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 work for you was but i was saying that the women won't 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. huh. but definitely, if one of the videos you more than on the local to the don't get off of them, like in care of the doctor told me i could have cancer in my uterus, had to be removed medical that look at the biopsy report, it's negative. there is no cancer, i sell them every route in the when i'm there at about. but if a doctor tells you about cancer, it's normal to be afraid. hm. okay. natalie. i think she just had an infection at the opening of the uterus. i test will likely will thanks to many she went to get a 2nd opinion at a public hospital. the doc told her that no hysterectomy was required and prescribed a 3 month treatment admitted annella, ignorant that of 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 to read. my vital that they don't counseling to me because i've read good which of them did when that it goes up and a half 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 was at some longhand, i saw that in the hall over there. so kind of thought that the dance of it over i said he'll get impatient to get their patients. these doctors do not hesitate to go directly to the villages unless they regularly organize for 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. now my mother died because of this. i was afraid. who am i don't want to think the news came to her village that dr. gov was giving free

consultation to solar. this news was given to us by medical assistance. i but my wife went through an emergency count, organized by doctor golf. 20023000 women. were there the fact she was examined, ultrasound was telling them everything was free. and then they told her that you have to have an emergency surgery today would be like, full ourself wasn't got all of them. why would organizers and doctors encourage these procedures in 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 with ideas, this is the cause of infections in them. if there 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 i'd be moving over these at this young age, this is going to create a problem in her future life as it helps in oxygen metabolism, nitrogen mid to what is it is important for your bone health, for your cardiovascular health, even for your mental health. if we have some infection in a 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 gang ring or the some major problem, they don't need me to quite amputation. so you can just remove an organ because it's having some problem making in, in the b, dest, the epicenter 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 billed by private clinics between 60900 euros, which is twice as expensive as a child birth. who by another day who by an okay any a d, it's terrifying. ah, terrifying about the local doctors abuse this practice. that's why there are so many hysterectomies on such a large scale. it's agreed to my, the doctors have set up a whole system to make a lot of money. a hey arnie down morris, then tar. ah, until get up of the dentist of tell me, hold 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. and 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. 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 needed surgery operation cost or the equivalent of 8 months of work and the healed. she also had to go into debt. we meet doctor gulf in his office. he was the one who prescribed a total hysterectomy to santa by due to the infection. we read the fashion so they

can, how was she said that she just you and she did like all the examinations. she had everything and she said that she was saying that she needed that i mean, but then she met another letter and your doctor said that she did need me. how did it check in? maybe i don't see. maybe she don't. i think she is writing maybe me just say that will that he proceeds up somewhere tonight. thanks to the i think the it is not true. nowadays. angler digging the permissional version of the permission after the guy taking from july 30. only when you use a mission, then the people are doing it. 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 have been doing enough to sub mentors and you can look up there. do you find a lot of that kind of cases here? many of us may in their cost is gone pretty well. doctor golf a does not explain these striking and frequent cases of fibroids. these fibers could be the cause of the intense and chronic pain that these women experience. but

then why do so many fema 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 your ph. d o andrew, mature. susan is a real good beginning to so mr. sites to abortion, to the environment. about best decides, don't know, a very few studies are there and no study has ling this. so fibroid or endometriosis with though i exposure of heavy metals. so i am gone to the literature and another phone doctor. they have studied for 3 heavy metals for the lead for cadmium and my duty. the fall that there are few odds of females who had fibroids, who would expose to get members. could there be

a link between the pain these women experience 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 be treated 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? yeah. oh, okay, great. with gretna guy, am i right? you you 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 me. the analysis revealed the presence of pesticides, but that was not the worst part. the woman's hair contained metals in unprecedented quantities, never seen before in the laboratory. on observing mental suggestion and contamination, although young we observed to poisoning from barium contamination. wanted in order to speak about toxicity, have to be precise about what acute means. precise because it is really quite high at 80 times also, or even 170 times the threshold of chronic toxicity in what we found. and these examinations is something far beyond what we are used to encountering and observing . the claims of survey bombing upon his officially doth, just wanted to,

nor domino is down among the 1st reactions are gastro, intestinal pain, abdominal pain that to fibroids. so sentence could be fibroids to certain skin diseases where you cardiac problems are yawned, severe fatigue at all. given the high levels of barium we found. also we are sure that these women are suffering from acute toxicity. the 5 women had the same results. if i'm, if there is an environmental issue at the origin of ursus, he during normal don, this land is highly contaminated, very am 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 for eliasis. they are highly soluble in water and can spread over hundreds of kilometers in 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 of human requirement for water is completed through ground water table. but 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 central water commission and this report has been emphatically saying that, you know, of all the 45 major reverse of india rubber for dragon's is not another good audi. the, the heavy mental content has been over and above the world health organization limits . and as well as the bureau of indian standard, setting up industries, allowing household or domestic know discharges, influence into the reverse. and industries along the river banks is something which is now no more acceptable thing. if one were 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 hysterectomy is performed as a consequence, do not solve their problems on the country. they worse than their state by making these women h quicker. we send the results of our tests by e mail 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. i

mean if there is contamination in the soil in 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. to me 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. i

mean, what do you 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. i don't for chris are real or so to show the until to preserve are helpful. you have to remove the contaminant content. it's not fatal waiver. they need to get away from the source in one bill and this case is their environment a lot. you're given the high level and it's easy to conclude. we will have to get away from that environment or can be afforded to one or 2 can be not afforded. the only one that's not a problem. i'll tell him why you're not in finding where. so sir, no problem. we tried to contact the health authorities of marsh. try to inform them of our test results. the other scott,

goal 19 group. i need it. okay, please got it. okay, good. okay. it came with bob when you when you but he, i'd be bad guy. i've been calling since the coven 19 pandemic. it has been difficult to get anyone on the phone. our calls and written requests have so far gone unanswered. in the mean time, manisha efforts continue to inspire. and southern marsh tra, in 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 cane cutters in her region as well. yes. yes. 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 you want him to laugh because of that? i've been, 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, sanky to had her uterus run and 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 sanky to her since fallen into depression. as the mother of 2 children, she regrets that she will never be able to give birth again. andre. yes. island. i

wanted to have another child exam, but i had this problem and i was afraid to you regretted my being chim avenue. yes, i regret it. i shall before i'm good. i am young. i was afraid for my life the 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 do you understand how serious this is? now bad and yes, then the modern camera, not the angular, let me go need our id or be here by yet. you can further called blue book, although it all out and be sure that 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, but i thought they were like, i love their family and i said, we're looking every julie many times with everybody. better. yeah. late. but don't we try like days many of them and they did, they just did one example offered. we're in this area, you can have many, many meetings or to problems which we are leading in in odd bailey, that sol every time they've something we have to think of all the broad of anger and we have repeated or that you should stop some things with sankey, test testimony will be air to night on this community. radio station. i me, i don't mind because it was the was got a photo, you know,

i mean i deal with 12 of them. what have you said a month of it? so it is a striking example that a 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 king cutters have emerged from the shadows . their problems are getting attention and india, one of the world's largest sugar producers. ah, so farming in kenya, without harmful chemical pesticides, not feasible. you didn't, you can produce enough of it to be able to put on the acidic fleming into bravery become really, while the politicians are still debating. the 1st farmers are very successful. with

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