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Eluru District Collector K. Vetri Selvi connected Wednesday (January 28) directed officials to registry transgression cases against hospitals and scanning centres recovered conducting enactment determination tests, which is prohibited nether the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act.
She was attending a coordination committee gathering of borderline districts astatine the Collectorate.
Reviewing the implementation of the PCPNDT Act, the Collector stressed that enactment determination of foetus is simply a punishable offence and called for intensified surveillance and operations to curb it.
She instructed officials to guarantee that inspections are meaningful and pb to strict punishment for offenders. Awareness programmes connected the provisions of the Act should beryllium conducted extensively, she said, adding that information from the Mother and Child Tracking System indispensable beryllium utilised effectively. Coordination betwixt the Health Department, ICDS officials, ANMs, ASHA workers and Anganwadi centres was emphasised to safeguard maternal and kid wellness and forestall anaemia and malnutrition among large women.
The Collector besides directed officials to verify whether scanning centres are maintaining mandatory registers and tracking follow-up visits of large women. Special sub-committees with officials from borderline mandals should beryllium formed to place abortion-related cases and suspicious scanning centres.
She urged the nationalist to study violations done the toll-free fig 1800-425-6131. If amerciable enactment determination is confirmed, contiguous transgression cases should beryllium filed, scanning centre licences cancelled, and doctors’ registrations revoked. The gathering was attended by District Medical and Health Officer P.J. Amrutham, ICDS PD Sharada, ITDA officials and aesculapian officers from authorities and backstage hospitals.
