Sugar's Dark Secrets: India's Sugar Plantation Workers Forced into Surgery | Documentary

In India, the average age of women having their uterus removed is just 34. Many are a lot younger. Thousands of women are being tricked into expensive and unnecessary operations to remove their wombs by unscrupulous private doctors. As well as leaving their families burdened with heavy debt, the operations push the women into early menopause, often leaving them weak and unable to work.
In the sugar-growing region of Beed, one in three women have had their wombs removed. Many of them, like Prabarvati, went to the doctor with period pain, backaches or bladder infections and were told they had cancer and the only solution was an urgent hysterectomy. She was just 26 when she had the operation. Years later, she suffers from crippling pain and appears decades older. Her daughter had to stop going to school and start working the cane plantations to help the family survive
Other women were pushed into having the operation by cane cutting contractors, who are reluctant to hire women who menstruate. There is a belief that women who haven’t had the operation are less productive.
But there are those trying to stop the hysterectomies. Manisha Tokle has spent the last six years denouncing the system and educating women about their bodies.
This documentary was first released in 2021.
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[@DamplyDoo]

I literally would never have heard of this. Keep covering these unseen issues

[@cassandrasmom]

I had no idea this was even happening. Thank you for bringing light to very important issues!

[@jewel7322]

This is HORRENDOUS!! I wish I could come there and help these women and take care of those factory recruiters! 😡

[@jewel7322]

They need a class action suit against that factory. They need to pay up!

[@kiki11974]

Agreed, but this is India. There won’t be any lawsuits to right the wrongs made to these women

[@tree6835]

Absolutely haunting.

[@dominiusmaverick1854]

Thank you for shedding light on this. I'm from MH and had no clue

[@lifestoriesfromearth6271]

why this video is not possible to watch in India

[@dunique26]

There should b no pain after a hysterectomy. I think they did a crap job. The hysterectomy is not the only reason that woman look so old. Shes living a much harder life than us over here in the west, she's in sun all day and that don't help either...

[@drip_monke2542]

Of course govt won't do anything for the contamination. I mean why would manufacturing industries move to india unless they offer cheaper labour and worse environmental protection laws.

[@daa7241]

Same is case with any other country. China Bangladesh etc.

[@ashash2863]

This is terrible ... even if it's Fibroids why remove the uterus ... Jesus ...

[@milaishizuka9711]

So sad why remove the womb.. Fibroids can be cured by other means like myomectomy, uterine artery embolization…

[@celesteadeanes4478]

theres herbs for the condition too

[@celesteadeanes4478]

theres herbs for the condition too

[@Adiishresthaaa]

so any few views shows the dire condition of media in my nation

[@mralohran]

This is the story in every town and city of India. Unscrupulous doctors, who act like butchers, are given a free run by the government.

[@NaturalSelection8.]

woman are not designed to carry heavy work now look at the results of it.

[@celesteadeanes4478]

field work is perfectly suited to women but menstral and pregnacy rest is a right. These women actually can work longer than men it has been determined -- if SHE RESTS ON MENSES SABBATH. U are right these loads are too heavy. Thats evil

[@ricotrp_]

Yess india at its finest, not surprising at all

[@garfield2742]

Sometimes i think that India is the one that will follows USA pathway to be superpower, not China. The arrogance was so noticeable.

[@nunusky3942]

Me:👀👀👀👀 My brain: what are they doing with those uterus? Voice in my head: transgender wants to have a baby. Me: wtf

[@maitryebhandare599]

That's not how it works

[@nunusky3942]

@@maitryebhandare599 believe what u want but can u really say that a healthy uterus is just thrown away

[@junglesuperstar9270]

@@maitryebhandare599 really? Crazy greedy surgeons will do anything for crazy patients

[@celesteadeanes4478]

Why not? western people hire these women as surrogates buy other organs too as well as traffick babaies@@maitryebhandare599

[@crazzyiam4640]

It's not Bombay it's Mumbai 😑

[@Tetangganya_Putin]

Nobody cares, same shithole