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Eluru territory registered 1,499 abortions successful 2025, according to the Medical and Health Department, and the Collector has ordered a probe into the incidents.
The territory has 115 scanning centres, including 102 backstage diagnostic centres, said officials from the section astatine a precocious held gathering to reappraisal the enforcement of the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, 1994.
District Collector K. Vetri Selvi directed the Police and the Medical and Health Department officials to instrumentality each steps for a stricter enforcement of the Act. “The enactment ratio is 934:1,000 successful Eluru district, which is alarming. Those violating the PCPNDT Act should beryllium booked,” the Collector said.
Ms. Vetri Selvi directed the officers to deploy decoy parties and publication those who execute scanning connected large women successful usurpation of the Act.
She besides told the Drug Control Administration (DCA) officers to support a tab connected aesculapian shops and guarantee that drugs are not sold without prescription.
Speaking connected information of anonymity, a aesculapian serviceman told The Hindu thatthe Medical and Health officers volition analyse the abortions case-wise and taxable a report. The officers volition question details specified arsenic the crushed for abortion, wherever the scanning was performed, the period successful which the gestation was aborted, the wellness information of the parent and foetus by that time, whether the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Act, 2021 was followed and different particulars.
Awareness should beryllium conducted connected implementation of the PCPNDT Act and the toll-free fig 18004256131 that tin beryllium utilized by the nationalist to alert officials regarding amerciable abortions, Ms. Vetri Selvi said.
