Part of a whole system which believes his time has come with chinas president , she ging paying starts july 30th on d. W. Ah ah, what they are more valuable to me from center. How can you remove such an important part of your body . Just because a doctor tells you to dig now bad and under more than 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 didnt work high in our region alone, and there are more than a 100000 young women who no longer have yet to receive. It is very strange for you just that i felt like 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 scores not functionally to have to be removed. If i house though, my luck, im going to have when these women go to the doctor complaining of a regular or heavy ministration or tor stomachache, i thought i was, they are always told to do a hysterectomy diary, the nasa of a different belief. These are major surgeries and bring about premature menopause in young women. If they dont remove the uterus, its 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 Worlds 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, the published and held as it as a priority. Oh cd. While i am from these women are suffering from acute toxic exposure. You see from la are engine sugar cane cutters, the victims of poisoning. Oh oh. Oh oh. Oh robert marty has been working in these fields and she was 10 years old. Come on, we have to speed up because 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 miss arthur, im 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 . Im what is the doctor said i had to have my uterus removed, otherwise i would get cancer. So i had the hysterectomy. And since the operation ive had trouble working, it hurts me at night and it hurts me when i been down like this is 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 dont work what we eat, family to day, she is 33 years old. That looks much older. There are many cases like probabilities in the region. One unknown evil has been spreading and recent years around the bead district. This agricultural region is called the sugar belt. Thousands of hectors 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, maneesha 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. Many just 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 lagoon couldnt get lily and gentle dental bish. Those of you who have had the uterus removed, raise your arm and he got at fisheries. I, lilian, i ignored one. The 2345 seat and the one who left with her mother and in all 7 and her own school. Every day i need is out when i did, she is out. But art thats 8 in this village alone. I dont know. 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 london will learn. I had a stomachache and was bleeding heavily and on finding some of these items i probably wouldnt be looted. I had him a young man that local that headaches had a lot of. I knew your periods, regular blog setting manually. No, always irregular. Yeah. You am our guy. I listened on, could you or so when was your operation a 6 years ago . When were does i hate you . Problems. Like many of the sugar cane cutters in our area have had his to retinal care. He was, the large number is the one problem regardless, most of them have until gone to surgery to very young aid had have told me this is the most important problem. You, i am, i did then to got a voucher. I had to push regardless at the how brit regression it in our regional loan. There are more than 100000 young women who no longer have a jo taurus on monday. This is very strange. I just forgot by sadness, lyla, by guys. Yet manisha 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. I mean, oh, by the alter sound is clear. Your ovaries completely mo, mo, here kitty, i, according to the activists, and the majority of the cases, the symptoms described in the files did not justify the surgery. My, this woman was healthy. No, probably my job. I house, thought of my luck. And when these women go to the doctor with irregular or heavy menstruation, no letters 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 to hysterectomy. I had a stomach ache, and a woman from the village told me to go to the hospital if see what was wrong. I was hospitalized immediately. I would just go, they wouldnt 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 wouldnt go to sheila like all the other women we met, was not made aware of the side effect of my cousin from black that i thought i saw my Health Problems have not been resolved. Oh, the pain is still there. It has even gotten worse. My god. Damn my neck hurts my wrists, hurt my whole body aches. Sometimes i cant even feel my legs in. If i carry heavy things, my scar hurts. Its very painful. I need to set up a body. Pays a very high price for the separation. Part of you see problems like osteoporosis. I pain in the me message in the body. I was that man by to collect the debt. Im what a hard shop with dish and ellie went away. Operation was done 10 years ago, so 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 dod muncie done to jude horner gum. No, no, its true. Sometimes i cry all day. What can i do . I thought id 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 indebted. 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 exist. Mm. In india, we call them back. Well, because they, she do cause in their tribes. Most of the should work in hardware stores. They are their tribal labors and i believe labors. That means lucy duke us is a traditional parma glass discrimination because the people who didnt have access to be pi immense and access to be knowledge and education be billed. They were largely coiling people. They go with their family b, how to can promptly to field because they do very hard work. They start early in there and be out paid on the beast use of boot. Actual harder with that. They do. Labor laws are hardly implemented in india and go there are reports in terms of trade unions to organize them, but they dont succeed in getting securing busy german. Right. And thats why bill 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 yeah. Why then im 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, theyre 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, its time to leave for the sugar cane fields. The whole village prepares for the move coupon hard work also by the beginning of the review, of course, and they know it. They have to get up at 3 am to go to work in the field. The little bottled legs are so many women complain of pain. Yes. And when that happens, theyre taken to the hospital. There they are treated, they are given medicine, they 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 dont remove a uterus, its a problem for us. They are less productive. And if they get cancer, they no longer useful. We little that women are operated on to keep them productive, no more children, periods or pain. He believes a mundane operation. Thats almost inevitable. Ricka is already thinking about a hysterectomy at age 20. She suffers from her current and violent pain. The cause of what she does not know. My boy, i tell me. I have a very bad headache because im so tired. I am exhausted in my stomach hurts a lot. Oh, hello. Hello. The mocha dumb 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. Lay down with record belongs to one of the poorest calf 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, these workers go to the sugar belt a plantation thats 1000 kilometers long in the west of the country. There they will cut and collect sugar cane 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 a list as a 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 its our little hut. We live here. It is our small house for 4 for 6 months. We sleep here. We cook here. Ha, who might have been, would like we are sad for the children. The lack of hygiene and sanitary facilities in these camps can cost 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 dont 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 b, it changes and without mens is the be, it is as a dick which prevents from infection and ones men to the start this be it changes and then it predisposes these females to vaginal infections with its 6 pm and the men leave to deliver the stock of the day to the factory. Its to work for several years. India has been in peers, competition with preserve 2019 the country. Finally ranked number one in the world with it will go to countries like to buy canister and of course europe only 19 to be the post abra. Do she wanted me to buy this debit . In the sixties and seventies, they became more prominent and why be roads to 200 . Because everyone bought to be a leader to then 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 grub. It baby had growing and the state gave a lot of the board in terms of irrigation and her. I led to city barbara or to pump the water to irrigate the crop salt, sugar game, and became very important. Not only economic rob, but also politically ended the sugar barrens del created go to bear all calm Interest Groups all over the state. This is sugar again, bronze a, back out on guard. They control the martyrs phosphate economically and politically. Ah, in 2020, my restaurant alone, provided half of the countries 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 . Says these women only work for you. What i was saying that the women who walked for you had hysterectomy so that they can work every day of the month. Oh my god, you know, i dont know anything about it. Its not my field. I dont 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 infection. She wants to introduce us to santa by a sugar cane cutter who escaped a hysterectomy with ha. But if one of the videos you more than on the local to the del glover thermal, again, care of the doctor told me i could have cancer in my uterus, had to be removed to it. Look at the biopsy report, its negative. There is no cancer route in the when im there at about, but if a doctor tells you about cancer, its normal to be afraid. Hm. Okay. Natalie. I think she just had an infection at the opening of the uterus age as well as well. Thanks to many so 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. Admitted annella, 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 agree to have their uterus removed, even if they dont know if its really appropriate. Besides, they are not offered all the treatments that they are told jenny, that there are no other solutions. So read my bertha that we dont counseling dont because albred good, which i did when that it was a foot and a half upward. Fees of got it. I cant imagine that her 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, im not saying that all doctors in the area involved with interest at some long had last a hard look in the hollow with us. So kind of thought that the dance of it or what i said, yeah. Okay, impatient to get their patients. These doctors do not hesitate to go directly to the villages unless they regularly organized for you screening 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, at this time she was bleeding too much. Now my mother died because of this. And so i was afraid of my dads. Im wondering the news came to her village that dr. Gov was giving free consultation to select. The news was given to us by medical assistance. I bought my wife went through an emergency count, organized by doctor golf. 20023000 women. My, theyre the 5 she was examined. Ultrasound was trying to remember, everything was free, and then they told her that you have to have an emergency surgery today. The little ourself wasnt 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 if i did, this is the cause of infections in them. If there is infection treat with medicine, he was just having infection. And theyre all these are normal. This is an algorithm. Its 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 its having some problem leaking 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 another day who by an okay, i mean the, its terrifying ah, terrifying head that the local doctors abuse this practice. Thats why there are so many hysterectomies on such a large scale. It agreed my the doctors have set up a whole system to make a lot of money. A hey, arnie da morris then tar. Ah, i took it up at the dinner. His took them. I 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. The doctor said i had fibroids in my uterus was very swollen. He said it was better to remove it. It wouldnt 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 gulf in his office. He was the one who prescribed a total hysterectomy to santa by due to a simple infection. We reservations already. This is cara, how was she said as you go shows you and she did like all the examinations here and everything. And she said as she was saying that she needed inside, but then she met another. And you dont know, said as she didnt need to say, how did it maybe bigger . I dont know exactly what it is. Yeah. See, maybe shes like normal i as in she is way. Maybe some me just say that some of the will, the pro fees of someone who might use as and again money are you still have the same . I think this is not true. No, it is only going to go digging the punish nazi will suggest after the commission after the guy negligence checking once you like or b only when he used the one. Mm hm. Then that people are doing history. According to him, cases of removal of the uterus for simple infections do not occur any more. He invites us to follow the morning operation. A sugar cane catcher will have her uterus removed. He tells us it is for very good reasons, a b i. And they will greg with enough of medicine. I do remember. Thirdly, youre going to take a look up there to present you find a lot of that kind of cases here in america. I was suppose to live with intercourse, been gone. This is a woman dr. Golf, a does not explain the striking and frequent cases of 5 boys. 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 of period year and were mature. Susan is there we go. Dont be willing to serve mr. Science to abortion, to the environment about pesticides. Didnt know a very few studies are dead, and no study has ling this. So fibroid or endometriosis window, i exposure of heavy metals. So i have gone to the la trade to add another phone doctor. They have studied for 3 heavy metals for the lead for cadmium, and my judy. The fall there be a few odds of females who had fibroids, who had exposed to gad, members, could there be a link between the pain this woman experience that leads to these mass hysterectomies and environmental pollution . This is an angle we want to explore. Indian 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 here . I can grade those. Ive gotten a good idea when i yes you oh 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 womans hair contained metals, an unprecedented quantities, never seen before in the laboratory. On observing mental suggestion and continued national oberon, we observed to poisoning from barium contamination and wanted in order to speak about toxicity. But 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 what we found them. These examinations is something far beyond what we are used to encountering and observing the dog. The claim of survey balmy lip on his face it a dollar off just wanted to, nor dominos down or among the 1st reactions are gastro. Intestinal pain, abdominal pains that the fibroids occur. So symptoms could be fibroids to certain skin diseases where cardiac problems are yawned, severe fatigue 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. So from there is an environmental issue at the origin under her says he doing all the on without me. 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 in rivers and water tables, and pull 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 out of this one water table. So im in the Central Water Commission and this report has been emphatically saying that you know, all the 4 or 5 major reverse in india. Rumble diag angels, not another godaddy. The, the heavy mental content has been over and above the World Health Organization limits. And as well as the bureau of indian standard limits setting up industries, allowing household or domestic no 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 an 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 email to manisha. From the reports you shared with us, the situation looked really alarming. Its 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 finding solutions. Now if there is contamination in the soil in water than it could affect 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. 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. I dont for chris are real sort. It showed the untouched to preserve their health. When you have to remove the contaminant content, its not fatal waiver. They need to get away from the source. And when did this case is their environment for all youre given the high level, its easy to conclude. We will have to get away from that environment or can be afforded to one or 2 can be not afforded to leon. Thats another problem. How tell him we are not in problem where so sir, no problem. We tried to contact the Health Authorities of marashi, try to inform them of our test results. The other scott, go 9, can go by me real quick, please. Gosh, okay, good. Okay, getting with bob connie, but he got giant since the covered 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 money shes 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 touch hers in her region. And i thought, well, i guess 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 are your sim to him . Was on that as well that, that ive 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 on gaeta, had her uterus removed 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. Thank you 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 exam, but i had this problem and i was afraid to you regretted my pension and give him yes, i regret it. 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 dont have a room, how can we give birth to a child . Now you cant. 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 now, baron . Done . Yes. And a martin vera. Not the angular a video i saw by yet can cervical lou. Although it all out with, if we have cancer of the uterus, but only then should we have a hysterectomy. There is no need to do a hysterectomy otherwise. Thats why i go around telling people not to have a hysterectomy level, but thats what they look like. I love their family and i said were looking every julie at many times. Is that better . Yeah, late. But dont we try like these many of them and they didnt just do one example offered. Were in this area, you can have many, many meetings or to problems which we are dealing in in our daily life. So every time theyve something we have to think of all the broad of anger and we have repeated or that usual stop some things with sankey test testimony will be air to night on this community. Radio station a he, yes i, i was got a full you know, i mean i do have 12 of them. What are these are the ones 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 cane cutters have emerged from the shadows. Their problems are getting attention and india, one of the Worlds Largest sugar producers, ah, is the end of the pandemic in site. We show what it could look like. 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