Pune: Protest outside IMA office over PC-PNDT Act
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The Indian Medical Association office in Pune witnessed a staged public demonstration by the women’s and health rights organisations, appealing for a stringent implementation of the Pre Conception – Pre Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PC-PNDT) Act.
The protestors were from the Stree Mukti Andolan Sampark Samiti and the Jan Arogya Manch, demanding a stronger protection for the right of a girl child.
The protesters have alleged that with the Act at present the “criminal doctors’ are being protected instead. The women’s organisation openly criticized the campaign led by IMA, which they opine is not enough to protect the implementation of the Act.
While IMA and IRIA has been demanding amendments to the act to reduce punishments for clerical mistake falling under the form F, these protestors were appealing things contradictory. Rather than amendments to the Act, the protestors demanded stricter implementation of the Act.
The protestors further appealed that since such campaigns against the act by IMA and the Indian Radiological Imaging Association (IRIA) are not effective on-ground; the responsibility now lies with the doctors who should report such cases within their community, to stop indulgence in sex determination.
The protestors were from the Stree Mukti Andolan Sampark Samiti and the Jan Arogya Manch, demanding a stronger protection for the right of a girl child.
The protesters have alleged that with the Act at present the “criminal doctors’ are being protected instead. The women’s organisation openly criticized the campaign led by IMA, which they opine is not enough to protect the implementation of the Act.
While IMA and IRIA has been demanding amendments to the act to reduce punishments for clerical mistake falling under the form F, these protestors were appealing things contradictory. Rather than amendments to the Act, the protestors demanded stricter implementation of the Act.
The protestors further appealed that since such campaigns against the act by IMA and the Indian Radiological Imaging Association (IRIA) are not effective on-ground; the responsibility now lies with the doctors who should report such cases within their community, to stop indulgence in sex determination.
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