Women partly reason for low vasectomy figures

The News Minute | November 15, 2014 | 8.50 am ISTMen are discouraged or dissuaded from undergoing vasectomies by women. Over concerns that surgeries could leave the men unhealthy or even impotent, women stop their men from undergoing the comparatively more simpler family planning mechanism, reported Times of India. The numbers show a striking divide between genders in Tamil Nadu with just 512 men opting for a vasectomy as compared to 162219 women undergoing tubectomies between March and Spetmber. At a recent health camp in Chennai, only three men turned up for a ‘no scalpel vasectomy’ said the report.Read Seven fallacies due to which Indian men are unwilling to get a vasectomyRead Five things to know about sterilisation camps in India, deaths in Chattisgarh