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Tainted drugs suspected in Indian sterilization surgery deaths

Tainted or sub-standard drugs probably led to the deaths of 13 Indian women after sterilization surgery at a family-planning "camp", and owners of the factories that produced them have been summoned for questioning, a senior official said on Thursday.

Meanwhile, the doctor who carried out the sterilization of 83 women in less than three hours at a hospital in the eastern state of Chhattisgarh denied reports the equipment he used was rusty or dirty and blamed adulterated medicines for the tragedy.

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