Health | China China to Reverse Sterilization for Quake Parents Couples who abided by one-child policy can get free surgery By Nick McMaster Posted Jun 6, 2008 4:40 PM CDT Copied 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, 2008. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zeng Yi) 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. Read These Next Beyonce leaves national anthem unfinished. A space capsule carrying ashes of 160 people crashed in the ocean. A lesson in minding your own business ... at 30,000 feet. The death toll in the Texas floods has risen to 27, including 9 kids. Report an error