A whole system which believes his time with chinas 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, im 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 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 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 im 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. 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 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 ive 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 dont 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 hectors 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 couldnt 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 thats 8 in this village alone. I dont 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 wouldnt 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 wouldnt 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 cant even feel my legs. And if i carry heavy things, my scar hurts. Its 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, its 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 isnt 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 didnt 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 dont 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 dont succeed in getting securing basic human rights. And thats 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 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 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, its 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 dont remove their uterus, its 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. Thats 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 cant get back to you. Well, me. I have a very bad headache because im 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 thats 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 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 venice is b, it changes and without mens 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 its 6 p m and the men leave to deliver the stock of the day to the factory. Its 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 dont work in your so its very hard even we are feeling very bad. He hits us to look at our meals that are husbands, that were 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 theyre looking at them and look, i stomach was hurting a lot, so i had my uterus removed, the doctor said my uterus wasnt 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 dont have the operation, we will have problems at work a lot. Im in too much pain in the doctor tells me to have surgery and ill have my uterus removed. I cant 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 countrys 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 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 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, its negative, there is no cancer round in round or out of mouth, but if a doctor tells you about cancer, its 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. Id well id 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 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 birth of the gold, gone to linkedin because of breath good. Which of them did when that he was a foreigner upward fees. A. I cant 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, im 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 theyre over, these are normal. This is an algorithm. Its a young f