An Indian woman has died and 15 others are in hospital after being sterilised at a state-run camp in the state of Chhattisgarh on Monday.
It comes just a day after 13 women, who were sterilised at another camp in the state on Saturday, lost their lives.
More than 60 women remain in hospital, many in a critical condition, following tubectomy operations.
Protests have been held over the deaths, and the state government has ordered an inquiry into the operations.
The latest sterilisations took place in the Gaurela area of Bilaspur district in Chhattisgarh.
The woman who died was from the protected Baiga tribe whose dwindling numbers make it illegal to sterilise them, BBC Hindi’s Alok Putul reports from Bilaspur.
Authorities in India have been promoting family planning for several decades, trying to convince people to have smaller families.
