Medical Termination of Pregnancy Rules, 2003 - Inspection of a place

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      (1)   A place approved under rule 5 may be inspected by the Chief Medical Officer of the District, as often as may be necessary with a view to verify whether termination of pregnancies is being done therein under safe and hygienic conditions.

      (2)  If the Chief Medical Officer has reason to believe that there has been death of, or injury to, a pregnant woman at the place or that termination of pregnancies is not being done at the place under safe and hygienic conditions, he may call for any information or may seize any article, medicine, ampule, admission register or other document, maintained, kept or found at the place.

       (3)  The provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), relating to seizure shall, so far as it may , apply to seizure made under sub-rule (2).

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vamsikrishna3335

Your article was very helpful. Thank you for sharing us.

rakeshjjr, India

I fail to understand a few quack hasbeen punished by law till now .they are like an iceburg flourishing fluentely doing all illegal things even femal foetacide i am sure 99.9 % of foemal foetacide are done by the quacks why they are not targeted by the authorities

DrAmarenderVallala, India

Pl clarify whether a BAMS graduate with the experience of 20 years in the field of maternity services is qualified to do MTP

omkarsaxena1234567, India

can bams dr do mtp and delivery

robin chatterjee, India

if after 20 weeks the mother comes to know that her child will be congenitally handicapped,can then she abort the child??please explain wheather the mtpa states anything for this case or not??

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