Chandigarh: After finding that instances of female foeticide are growing in other parts of the country including neighbouring Punjab, the UT Administration, in a bid to ensure that such instances do not occur here, have made registration of pregnant women compulsory in the nearest health centre or the hospital. UT Home Secretary Krishna Mohan issued an order in this regard today.
Now pregnant women in Chandigarh will be motivated to get themselves registered with the nearest sub-centre, health centre, poly-clinic, community health centre, hospital, including private clinics and private hospitals by the Anganwari Worker, health workers including ANM/LHV and Doctors.
It has been directed that health workers and doctors attending to the pregnant women should maintain their record and keep a track of their pregnancy till delivery. They have also been asked to keep track of abortion if any and bring the same to the notice of appropriate Authority-cum-Director Health and Family Welfare, UT, Chandigarh.
Home Secretary has ordered that all ultrasound centres, clinics and hospitals hospitals shall strictly adhere to the provisions of the PNDT and MTP Acts.
The police will inform the Appropriate Authority-cum-Director Health and Family Welfare, UT, about the incident of any foetus or infant found abandoned in UT. “All foetus or infant found abandoned should be tested for DNA test in order to correlate with the women at a later stage, if found suspicious of having aborted,” it added.
Source: ENS