Scanning centres in Malappuram warned against prenatal sex determination

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District Medical Officer (DMO) T.K. Jayanthy has issued a informing against diagnostic laboratories and scanning centres engaged successful offering prenatal enactment determination successful Malappuram.

Dr. Jayanthy said that prenatal enactment determination was a punishable offence, and that stringent measures would beryllium adopted against institutions violating the restrictions.

Dr. Jayanthy said that peculiar grooming would beryllium fixed to scanning centre operators successful prenatal enactment determination.

As galore arsenic 8 scanning centres were permitted successful the territory connected Tuesday. Newly registered scanning centres volition beryllium fixed peculiar training, she said.

The DMO said that posters and boards would beryllium raised astatine antithetic places with the nonsubjective of creating consciousness against prenatal enactment determination.

A gathering held present connected Tuesday reviewed assorted aspects of scanning centre management. The DMO warned scanning centres that lone qualified doctors were authorised to tally specified centres.

She asked the radical not to unfastened scanning centres without due registration, for which the territory aesculapian authorities should beryllium approached.

District Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) Officer N.N. Pameeli, societal workers Beena Sunny and Sujata Varma, and District Education Media Officer K.P. Sadikali were among those who attended the meeting.

Published - December 31, 2025 09:03 p.m. IST

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