Doctors use bicycle pump for sterilization surgeries

A Odisha doctor has triggered outrage after using a bicycle pump to inflate the abdomen of 56 women during sterilisation surgeries in Banarpal village and later defended himself by saying it is not a new technique.Defending himself for using a bicycle pump as an alternative, Rout said several doctors use it to perform surgeries in rural areas in the absence of adequate medical facilities.In the sterilisation surgeries, Rout used a bicycle pump instead of insufflators to pump carbon dioxide into women's abdomen to maintain gas pressure. Insufflator is a medical equipment used to inflate the abdomen while performing laparoscopic tubectomy.

He said several hospitals are still not equipped with insufflators and as a result, doctors are left with no other options, but to use bicycle pumps as alternative.

"I am not alone. Surgeons often use bicycle pump in the rural camps where the facility of an operation theatre and other sophisticated equipments are not available," Rout told IANS. "We sterilise the pipe and nozzle tip of the pump before use."




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