A woman, who underwent a sterilization surgery at a government mass sterilisation “camp”, drinks tea as she sits in a hospital bed as her mother and son look on at a district hospital in Bilaspur

A woman, who underwent a sterilization surgery at a government mass sterilisation “camp”, drinks tea as she sits in a hospital bed as her mother and son look on at a district hospital in Bilaspur

A woman (L), who underwent a sterilization surgery at a government mass sterilisation “camp”, drinks tea as she sits in a hospital bed as her mother and son look on at a district hospital in Bilaspur, in the eastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh, November 13, 2014. The doctor whose sterilisation of 83 women in less than three hours ended in at least a dozen deaths said on Thursday the express operations were his moral responsibility and blamed adulterated medicines for the tragedy. Dr R. K Gupta, who says he has conducted more than 50,000 such operations, denied that his equipment was rusty or dirty and said it was the government’s duty to control the number of people that turned up at his family-planning “camp”. REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee (INDIA – Tags: HEALTH CRIME LAW SOCIETY)