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Ghaziabad: The health department on Monday revoked the licence of a nursing home in Loni area for allegedly carrying out sex determination tests.
Officials said that Krishna Nursing Home in Behta had been conducting the tests using an unregistered ultrasound machine. The owner of the facility and another person have been arrested in the case.
Three foetuses, all of which are about three month old, were found in the building. They have been sent for post-mortem, officials said.
The crime came to light after a Faridabad health department team reached Ghaziabad and a woman visited the nursing home on Sunday posing as a customer and reported the incident. The nursing home officials allegedly took Rs 15,000 from the woman for a sex determination test.
Gurugram Health Dept conducts raids to check sex determination tests
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Gurugram health dept busts sex-determination racket in Jhajjar. Image Source: IANS News
Gurugram, Feb 3 : To check sex determination tests in Gurugram and adjoining states, the Gurugram Health Department has conducted 14 raids in the last one year, of which eight were conducted in other states and the rest in Gurugram district, health officials said.
A raid was conducted on January 29 in south-west Delhi s Najafgarh area in which seven persons, including three women, were arrested and Rs 75,000 recovered from them. We have instructed our team to keep a strict watch on hospitals and clinics by visiting them on a regular basis and collect information about such wrong practices. In the last one year, the Health Department conducted several raids in Gurugram, Rajasthan, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh to curb sex determination tests, said G
DCPCR proposal to ban sex-selective surgeries on intersex children will help shed light on taboo subject, says petitioner The recommendations of the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights came after several organisations stressed on the long-term physical and mental harm caused by uninformed and unnecessary medical interventions Sarasvati NT February 02, 2021 17:24:33 IST Representational image. Image credit: fshoq
The Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) has recommended that the Delhi government ban medically unnecessary sex-selective surgeries on intersex infants and children, except in cases of life-threatening situations.
The DCPCR’s order from January comes in response to a petition filed by Dr Aqsa Shaikh, who is an associate professor of Community Medicine at Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and a proud tr
Maharashtra records decline in sex ratio at birth: NFHS-5
Prof Usha Ram at the department of public health and mortality studies, International Institute of Population Sciences, told The Indian Express that comparison of sex ratio at birth from CRS and NFHS would be incorrect as both have their own limitations December 18, 2020 1:01:55 am
There are some districts that have shown a rise in sex ratio at birth. (Representational)
THE NUMBER of children born in the last five years in Maharashtra has recorded a drop by 11 points, according to the fifth round of National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5). The sex ratio at birth (SRB) stands at 913 girls/1,000 boys as against 924 girls/1,000 boys as per NFHS-4.