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ITANAGAR, 5 Sep:<\/strong> Itanagar Capital Region (ICR) DC Talo Potom on Monday convened a meeting with the members of the District Advisory Committee and the District Appropriate Authority, besides sonologists and gynaecologists of the ICR, the managing directors\/owners of all private hospitals\/clinics, and others regarding the PC-PNDT Act, 1994, under which sex selection, before or after conception, is prohibited.<\/p>\n The Act also regulates prenatal diagnostic techniques for the purpose of detecting genetic abnormalities, or metabolic disorders, or chromosomal abnormalities, or congenital malformations, or sex-linked disorders, and calls for “prevention of their misuse for sex determination leading to female foeticide and for matters connected therewith.”<\/p>\n DMO (i\/c) Dr Giri Tali highlighted the various sections of the PC-PNDT Act, USG registration, use of machine, recordkeeping, etc.<\/p>\n He stressed on “registration and use of USG machine, and also registration of the doctors using the USG and also locum doctor.”<\/p>\n He further stressed on “the importance of proper recordkeeping at all the hospitals\/clinics,” adding that a copy of the PC-PCDT Act should be kept in all the hospitals and clinics.<\/p>\n Dr Tali also stressed that “the provisions under the PC-PNDT Act have to be strictly followed, and failure to do so may invite strict action.”<\/p>\n All present unanimously agreed that there is a lack of awareness on the PC-PNDT Act in the hospitals.<\/p>\n The DC asked the DMO to “properly sensitise all to the Act,” and requested all to comply with the Act.<\/p>\n Among others, Naharlagun EAC Likha Radh, EAC Khoda Lasa, Heema Hospital MD Dr Byabang Rana, senior gynaecologist Dr Bengia Mala, and OWA chairperson Ratan Anya attended the meeting. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 5 Sep: Itanagar Capital Region (ICR) DC Talo Potom on Monday convened a meeting with the members of the District Advisory Committee and the District Appropriate Authority, besides sonologists and gynaecologists of the ICR, the managing directors\/owners of all private hospitals\/clinics, and others regarding the PC-PNDT Act, 1994, under which sex selection, before or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-199746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}