DHAKA: The doctor who performed mass sterilization surgeries in Chhattisgarh of India on Saturday, after which 11 women died, has been arrested.
Dr RK Gupta was picked up for questioning on Wednesday night and has been charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder, reports NDTV.com.
“It was not my fault - the administration pressured me to meet targets,” the doctor said while being led away. “The surgeries went well but the problem was with the medicines given to the women,” he alleged.
The 59-year-old doctor operated on 83 women in five hours at the Nemi Chand Jain hospital in Bilaspur, which had not been in use since April.
Eight women died on Monday and three more died on Tuesday. Sixty women are being treated in various hospitals.
Dr Gupta was suspended on Tuesday by the state government, which had awarded him on Republic Day January 26 for a record 100,000 surgeries in his career.
On Thursday, another death was reported in a sterilization camp held on Monday at Gaurela, around 100 km from the site of Saturday’s camp in Bilaspur.
Four women were taken to hospital after botched surgeries; one died and three are being treated.
BDST: 1713 HRS, NOV 13, 2014