SARGODHA, Nov 24: Two labourers have claimed that a local reproductive health centre that is being managed by a foreign NGO has deceptively deprived them and their six colleagues of their testicles.

Manzoor and Zahoor of Chak 92/NB alleged that about three days ago, some people hired the services of the eight of them and took them in a van to a Millatabad clinic. A German doctor runs the clinic.

At the clinic, they were asked about the number of their children and their resources and operated upon without their consent. What was supposed to be a vasectomy turned out to be an operation for removal of testicles.

The clinic management allegedly made them sign some papers and paid each of them Rs100.

When this reporter viewed the private parts of Manzoor and Zahoor, the testicles were indeed missing while stitches were proof of a recent operation.

When this scribe contacted the clinic, nobody was there and the place was all locked up.

Neighbours told this reporter that the clinic was set up four or five years ago to control population growth. Poor people visited the clinic to get Rs100 for vasectomy. Women also visit the clinic to get paid for operations.