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21st December 2005 First baby born gives hope to tsunami mums A tsunami survivor in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has given birth to a child after undergoing surgery to reverse a sterilisation. It is the first birth since women who lost children in the disaster were given the opportunity to reverse the procedure free of charge. Senior district official Sunil Paliwal said that many women in Tamil Nadu have had surgery to reverse tubectomies following the tsunami. The baby girl was born on Sunday and is doing well. Her mother, Agnes Raj, 26, lost all four of her children in the tsunami which struck last Boxing Day and killed more than 2,500 children in Tamil Nadu. Agnes had an operation to rejoin her fallopian tubes at a private clinic in February and became pregnant the following month, according to her doctor, Indira Surendran. She also said that six other women who underwent the surgery at the same clinic have also conceived, although Agnes is the first to give birth. Operations to reverse vasectomies and tubectomies are available free of charge in Tamil Nadu at all state-run facilities. Women who want the operation done privately are given 25,000 rupees (about £320) to pay for the operation to reverse their tubectomy. The state government announced in March that it would foot the bill to pay for those whose children died in the tsunami to have the chance to conceive again. The news brought hope to poor parents who had had birth control operations but could not pay for them to be reversed. Where to next?
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