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China to Reverse Sterilization for Quake Parents

Posted Jun 6, 08 4:40 PM CDT in World,  Science & Health 

(Newser) – China will send medical teams to areas hit by last month’s earthquake to reverse sterilization procedures for couples who want to have another child, Xinhua reports. The Sichuan family planning agency is providing free surgery and counseling to couples who were once sterilized in accordance with the nation's one-child policy. About 7,000 of the earthquake's fatalities were the lone children in their families.

Source Xinhua (China)

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, members of an Italian medical team set up tents at Xiaode Township in quake-hit Mianzhu City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, on Friday, May 23,...   (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zeng Yi)
The damaged school ID card of a young girl who was killed when her schoolroom collapsed in Monday's earthquake, is seen at her grave in Wufu, in China's southwest Sichuan province Friday May 16, 2008.   (AP Photo/Greg Baker)
A parent looks at ID photos of children killed in Monday's earthquake, in the rubble of a school in Wufu, in China's southwest Sichuan province Friday May 16, 2008.   (AP Photo/Greg Baker)
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