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Civic body fails to promote vasectomy
Updated On: 26 August, 2013 02:19 AM IST | | A Correspondent
Declining number of vasectomy cases in data with Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has again highlighted lack of awareness in males as well as the civic body's failure to call attention to the conception prevention method. So far this year only 1.15 per cent of the surgical procedures were conducted in the city for family planning have been vasectomies.
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The recent figures from the city family welfare bureau of PMC have highlighted the fact that only 54 vasectomies have been carried out since April among 4,660 family planning operations. “Only 203 vasectomies were performed out of 13,039 surgeries for planned parenthood in our hospitals between April 2012 and March 2013,” informed Anjali Sabne, deputy medical officer (Health), PMC.
Few and far between: The vasectomy ward at Sassoon Hospital. File Pic
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