Vasectomy on childless youth

By Our Staff Reporter

CUDDAPAH, MAY 10. Vasectomy operation was performed on a 23-year- old married youth of Tallapaka village in Rajampet mandal, who has no children, at the Cuddapah government hospital on April 30.

Yerikalva Narasimhulu (23), a labourer working with a tractor owner, who was lying in an inebriated condition near an arch on the road leading to Tallapaka, the birthplace of the renowned saint-poet, Tallapaka Annamacharya, was allegedly accosted by two persons who lured him to undergo the family planning operation. Narasimhulu married Venkatasubbamma of Penagalur Vaddipalle three years ago, but they got separated before they could have any children, according to sources.

The two persons - Gangaiah and Jayanna - known to Narasimhulu, took the latter who was in a drunken state to the Cuddapah government hospital in an autorickshaw, where his thumb impression was taken and he was operated upon. The duo dropped Narasimhulu back at Tallapaka and pocketed the money given in the hospital, the sources added.

Meanwhile, enquiries revealed that a 55-year-old mason, Bethamcherla, and a beggar, Mastan (70), belonging to Kamalapuram Harijanawada, were also operated upon at the Cuddapah hospital on April 28.

When contacted, the District Medical and Health Officer, Dr. R. Gopal Reddy, told TheHindu that doctors all over the district were warned against performing vasectomy operations on old men and tubectomy on women beyond the age of 45 years. The motivator who persuaded the four old men of Kamalapuram Harijanawada to undergo family planning operations and the doctor who performed the FP operation were identified, Dr. Reddy said.

It was decided to give incentives to all the persons who undergo family planning operations right from May 1. The process of giving house sites and white ration cards to beneficiaries of last year had commenced.

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