PATIALA: In a bid to counter unlawful sex-determination and feminine foeticide, a staff of doctors from the Haryana well being division on Wednesday carried out a raid at a non-public sanatorium in Bahadurgarh town of Patiala district. The staff had won reports of unlawful sex-determination being carried out at the centre.
Informing their opposite numbers in Patiala, the staff led through Dr Neelam Kakkar, deputy civil surgeon of Kaithal district, carried out the raid at Vadi sanatorium on Patiala-Ghanaur Road close to Bahadurgarh. Health officers from Patiala additionally assisted the Haryana staff within the raid.
The well being staff additionally raided the home of a woman physician, who runs the sanatorium, at an city property in Patiala, and allegedly recovered apparatus used in sex-determination, foetus Doppler and abortion tablets. The groups additionally discovered a foetus from the sanatorium premises.
Patiala-based civil surgeon Dr Harish Malhotra stated, “The well being staff had won a criticism from their opposite numbers in Ambala about unlawful practices being carried out at the sanatorium, following which a joint operation was once introduced. A pregnant decoy affected person was once sent to the sanatorium and she met the doctors there. An quantity of Rs 15,000 was once passed over to her to pay it to the doctors who had already given consent for engaging in the unlawful intercourse determination.”
The decoy affected person advised the accused sanatorium authorities that she already had 3 daughters and was once unwilling take the risk of giving delivery to any other, and for this, she sought after to be informed the gender of her unborn child in order that she may abort it in case of a feminine foetus.
Malhotra added that the well being staff nabbed the accused doctors red-handed and recovered Rs 15,000 from them. “The sanatorium isn't approved and registered to hold out procedures associated with the scientific termination of pregnancy. We have knowledgeable the native police and an in depth record can be passed over to them to initiate felony motion towards the defaulters. The division has registered a formal criticism with the police as the accused had been discovered violating the rules of Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, 1994,” stated Malhotra.
Informing their opposite numbers in Patiala, the staff led through Dr Neelam Kakkar, deputy civil surgeon of Kaithal district, carried out the raid at Vadi sanatorium on Patiala-Ghanaur Road close to Bahadurgarh. Health officers from Patiala additionally assisted the Haryana staff within the raid.
The well being staff additionally raided the home of a woman physician, who runs the sanatorium, at an city property in Patiala, and allegedly recovered apparatus used in sex-determination, foetus Doppler and abortion tablets. The groups additionally discovered a foetus from the sanatorium premises.
Patiala-based civil surgeon Dr Harish Malhotra stated, “The well being staff had won a criticism from their opposite numbers in Ambala about unlawful practices being carried out at the sanatorium, following which a joint operation was once introduced. A pregnant decoy affected person was once sent to the sanatorium and she met the doctors there. An quantity of Rs 15,000 was once passed over to her to pay it to the doctors who had already given consent for engaging in the unlawful intercourse determination.”
The decoy affected person advised the accused sanatorium authorities that she already had 3 daughters and was once unwilling take the risk of giving delivery to any other, and for this, she sought after to be informed the gender of her unborn child in order that she may abort it in case of a feminine foetus.
Malhotra added that the well being staff nabbed the accused doctors red-handed and recovered Rs 15,000 from them. “The sanatorium isn't approved and registered to hold out procedures associated with the scientific termination of pregnancy. We have knowledgeable the native police and an in depth record can be passed over to them to initiate felony motion towards the defaulters. The division has registered a formal criticism with the police as the accused had been discovered violating the rules of Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, 1994,” stated Malhotra.
Sex-determination, abortion racket busted in hospital raid
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