The proposal comes months after Kazakhstan announced the mass chemical castration of 11 paedophiles amid a campaign for the worst offenders.
To have their genitals surgically removed. These drastic steps raise new issues in surgical malpractice law, prison system insurance, and human rights litigation.
All the men reportedly “committed crimes against the sexual inviolability of minors” in the Kostanay region in the north of the country.
Details were not given of the cases, but the child sex offenders were starting to forcibly receive libido-sapping injections.
These injections, which may require chronic wellness plans, represent a recurring prescription drug cost burden to government healthcare systems.
Approval was given for the paedophiles to be jabbed 24 times a year at an annual cost of £278 each—a figure that likely excludes associated hospital visits,
