Burning Spear News Jan 12, 2021 Chía Cotansuca, International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement "Free Our Future. Abolish ICE. March and Day of Action" by Fibonacci Blue is licensed under CC BY 2.0
No such thing as quality health “care” when you’re in detention At least 16 African and Indigenous women at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Ga. have come forward in the past couple months expressing grave concern over the gynecological “care” they received at the hands of Dr. Mahendra Amin who is known as the “primary gynecologist” there by ICE officials. The “care” in question included a pattern of “aggressive overtreatment” wherein Dr. Amin persistently suggested and performed surgical intervention even when the circumstances did not necessitate it and nonsurgical options were available. For example, he performed hysterectomies on at least four women who believed the procedure was unnecessary.