16,000 ‘illegal’ hysterectomies done in Bihar for insurance benefit

[IndiaInsurance]

Over 16,000 hysterectomies (surgical removal of the uterus), most of them “unnecessary”, have been reported at private hospitals across Bihar during the last one year allegedly to “avail insurance benefit” under the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna

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