India Mass Sterilization - A program run by India's government induces women to go through sterilization. Dozens of women went through it these last days and eight of them died as a result.

The aim of the mass sterilization program by India's government is to control the country's population, which has already more than a billion people, The Telegraph noted.

The Indian government offers free sterilization and many times, it even gives incentives by paying from $10 to $20 dollars for women to undergo a surgery.

The operations took place on Saturday. There were 83 women in total, all under the age of 32. Then, more than 60 women were taken to private hospitals because of complications they suffered, USA Today reported.

The reason behind the eight women who died was because of blood poisoning or hemorrhagic shock, it seems.  

"I don't know how this happened. The doctors were well-trained," Ramanesh Murthy, medical superintendent of the Chhattisgarh Institute, where the operations took place, said.

He further added that the surgeries were simple ones which took less than five minutes, so he couldn't fathom what went wrong.

After this incident, the doctors who took part in the operations were suspended by the state and compensation will be given to each of the victims' families of $6,600 each.

Still, according to The Guardian, this isn't the first time a situation of the sort happened. As a matter of fact, the incentives to have the surgery don't only come in the sums of money mentioned.

In addition, cars and electrical goods are also offered to women to undergo the procedure.

Between 2009 and 2012, the government paid for 568 deaths in the form of compensations to the families. Also, four million were the operations performed between 2013 and 2014.

The mass sterilization doesn't seem to be the answer for India, as the issue already became a worrying matter to the UN.