FORTY-FIVE PERCENT WOMEN IN TWO TELUGU SPEAKING STATES FACE VIOLENCE.

Violence against women is as high as forty-five percent in both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, experts at the National Conference on Fertility Regulation and Women's Health organised in the city on 27th August, 2015 said. The recent National Family and Health Survey of 2015 showed that forty-three women out of one hundred in both the Telugu states experienced spousal violence. Of these 5.9 percent women experienced violence during pregnancy. Dr. Shanta Kumari, Secretary of the Indian College of Obstetrics and Gynaecological Society, a core member of the Federation of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of India, said, "We see cases of women who have suffered from sexual violence relating to unwanted pregnancy, unsafe abortions and neglected pregnancies. These women come to us with these issues and are mostly in the age-group of 18 to 45 years. Our objective is to help them open up about their problems so that we can help them both in the physical sense as well as with regard to the mental trauma that they suffer from".
Dr. Krishnendu Gupta, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, said, "Many a time we find that the woman does not want to go to the police  and talk about this violence as it will bring social stigma to the family. They talk to gynaecologists because they attend to the physical abuse and treat it. Some of them open up about mental trauma. Counselling the couple and dealing with their issues in private is the aim". 
Common Cases:
  • Indicative of violence against women were injury to uterus, internal abrasions due to sexual abuse, injury to the abdominal region, sudden abortions.
  • Women in the age group of 18 to 45 years were found to have these problems.
  • All sections are found to indulge in violence right from drunk husbands beating their wives to mother-in-laws torturing a woman for a male child and declaring a woman unfit to bear a child.
Doctors say Hysterectomy is not contraception: Hysterectomy is not the answer to long-term contraception. The practice is popular in both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states. Women as young as 25 to 30 years of age undergo the procedure. Dr. C.N. Purandare, senior obstetrician and gynaecologist, said, "Hysterectomy is to be performed only if the uterus is medically not fit. Removing the uterus as a method of contraception is not advisable. This practice has been done away with in the United States and Europe and in India we are working hard to create awareness about the same".
A senior Doctor said, "There are those who do it as a business for women in rural areas. These doctors need to be banned and action taken against them. We have a large number of quacks who need to be punished for these jobs".
The International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetricians has asked all its members to perform hysterectomy only in case of medical mal-function and not as a method of contraception.
(Based on a report published in Deccan Chronicle dated 27th August, 2015).
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