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NEW DELHI (AP) - Manju Devi suffered pain for two months last year as she worked on a farm near Delhi, unable to avoid tasks that sometimes involved standing for hours in the waist-deep water of a paddy field lifting heavy loads in intense heat and spraying pesticides and insecticides. When the pain finally became too much to bear, she was rushed to a hospital.
The doctors' verdict: Devi had had a prolapsed uterus and would need a hysterectomy. She had not said a word to her family about her discomfort due to the social taboo against discussing a "women's ...