Twelve doctors were convicted out prison terms in the past year for carrying out sex determination tests and non-registration and illegal of sonography machines in the state.
This is the first time that doctors have been sent to jail. Since the census reports were made Maharashtra public has a large child sex ratio of 925 females per 1,000 males. The state government has also taken various steps, including launching the 'Save the Girl Child' campaign, to prevent female, but then too its happening and growing day by day.
The orders for the doctors' imprisonment were issued by judicial magistrate respective districts. All the convictions have taken place in the rich belt of western Maharashtra. A majority of the cases are from Sangli. The other districts include Solapur, Nanded and Kolhapur. In five cases, the vigilance squad used (a pregnant lady) to catch the radiologist red-handed while carrying out sex-determination tests and informing the patient about the child's sex. The other cases related to the non-registration of sonography machines.
This is the first time that doctors have been sent to jail. Since the census reports were made Maharashtra public has a large child sex ratio of 925 females per 1,000 males. The state government has also taken various steps, including launching the 'Save the Girl Child' campaign, to prevent female, but then too its happening and growing day by day.
The orders for the doctors' imprisonment were issued by judicial magistrate respective districts. All the convictions have taken place in the rich belt of western Maharashtra. A majority of the cases are from Sangli. The other districts include Solapur, Nanded and Kolhapur. In five cases, the vigilance squad used (a pregnant lady) to catch the radiologist red-handed while carrying out sex-determination tests and informing the patient about the child's sex. The other cases related to the non-registration of sonography machines.
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