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To uphold the integrity of prenatal health services, Jharkhand's health department is set to embark on an intensive three-month evaluation of more than 1,000 ultrasound centers across the state. This initiative aims to obliterate the illegal practice of sex determination and reinforce standards of patient care.

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Directive issued at district-level pcpndt act review meeting; officials told to alert police in cases involving minors

Former Indian Medical Association Maharashtra president Dr. Ravindra Kute was arrested for alleged involvement in an illegal sex determination and abortion racket operating across Ahilyanagar and Pune. Police have apprehended 12 individuals, including doctors and agents, as part of a wider crackdown.

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Deep-rooted son preference fuels sex-selective abortions in India, leading to millions of fewer female births by 2030. Despite legal bans, illegal networks facilitate prenatal sex determination and terminations, driven by cultural pressures and financial anxieties. While some areas show slow improvement in sex ratios, demand for sons persists.

A man has been arrested for allegedly drowning his pregnant wife and two daughters in a swimming pool after discovering the unborn child was female. He reportedly intended to marry a minor to father a male heir. Police also arrested ten others for facilitating an illegal prenatal sex determination test.

Only 20% sonography machines are registered in the names of registered radiologists, while remaining 80% machines are registered in the names of gynecologists.

Medicos Legal Action Group (MLAG) organized "Chai pe legal Charcha" for ultrasonologists and gynaecologists on Sunday at IMA complex, Sector 35.The topic for discussion was criminal prosecution under pcpndt act.

Save girl child and `beta-beti ek samaan' (son-daughter are equal) were among the themes in an awareness rally taken out by the health department in the city on Wednesday.

Radiologists across the city and the district observed a day’s strike on Wednesday seeking amendments to the the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act to relieve them of alleged harassment.

State Health Society Research Centre (SHSRC) and State Family Welfare Bureau (SFWB) together organized a workshop to train government health care providers working in the Nagpur circle in the various aspects of the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act (PCPNDT) Act.

Alarmed at the declining child sex ratio (0-6 years of age) in Visakhapatnam district, the health authorities in the district are cracking the whip on ultrasound centres to ensure that they are not flouting the Pre-Conception & Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994 (pcpndt act).

Women's and health rights organizations recently held a public demonstration before in front of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) office at Tilak Road, appealing the medical community to adhere to the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act and protect the girl child.

Even as the child sex ratio continues to decline in the state, reportedly due to increase in female feoticide, the state government, it seems, is not taking implementation of the pre-conception and pre-natal diagnostic technique (prohibition of sex determination) — pcpndt act — seriously.