Deadly target.

The article focuses on the tragedy in Chhattisgarh's Takhatpur block of Bilaspur, India following laparoscopic tubectomy of women at the government sterilisation camp. The mass sterilisation is noted to cause the death of 13 women and left others critically ill. Physician R. K. Gupta is deemed not ill-equipped and in rush to complete the surgeries. The camp is found in violation of the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare's standards for female and male sterilisation in October 1999.