If you sit in a district bus, every fifth woman doesn’t have a uterus, Dr Prakash Vinjamuri says to us quietly at the village of Vasalamarri, a couple of hours by road from Hyderabad.
It is a stunning statistic, but Dr Vinjamuri and his wife, Dr S.V. Kameswari, should know. They are responsible and public-spirited physicians, who have since 2001 been educating rural women about the importance of the uterus and why it should not be removed except for the most compelling medical reasons.
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