Hysterectomy in Rural Areas of Andhra Pradesh: A Retrospective Study

The number of women reported to have had hysterectomy in Guntur district is 502 out of 3452 women in the reproductive age group and corresponding women in Mahbubnagar district is 39 out of 5746. [...] The startling differences in the rates of hysterectomy in both the districts suggests further probe into differential determinants of hysterectomy in both the regions. [...] Sex composition of the surviving children at the time of hysterectomy reveals that in both the districts higher percent of the women (57.2 in Guntur and 77 percent in Mahbubnagar) with two or more children and with a combination of at least a son and a daughter had hysterectomy than those who had children of same sex. [...] In 94 percent of the cases doctor though talked to them about their problem, to eight out of ten women in Guntur and one out of ten women in Mahbubnagar district the doctor emphasized that hysterectomy is the solution to their ill health. [...] In the villages of both the districts a majority of the women complained of Prolapse as another main cause to go for hysterectomy.