Latest Comments on Indian Health Acts - Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1994

This act is an emotional and mental trauma for the radiologists booked under this act as in most cases innocent doctors are being booked and their diagnostic centres being sealed after every raid even if some trivial irregularities are found-what is worse is that criminal FIRs are filed after every raid which is beyond comprehension-ultrasound machines are sealed and handed over to police and the machines keep rotting in Police stations and FSL centres for months together-there are no ultrasound facilities in govt hospitals as there are very less radiologists in the country and PNDT act is bent upon closing whatever small ultrasound centres are there in private sector-Govt needs to think over otherwise people will think twice before making their children Radiologists.

Hi everyone . We should all be ashamed of not just the declining sex ratio but of all the atrocities that are committed on the females in our country . The injustice begins at the time of conception and is carried on at home, in offices, public places, everywhere ... If girls were not considered a burden , then people would not want to do away with them, and there would not be any need for such an act which i believe is unique to our country.
Now coming to the PCPNDT ACT, i am sure it has been made after a lot of discussion and deliberation by intellectuals and legal experts but for us doctors and sonologists , it means hours wasted in record keeping and ulcers wondering if our form filling will meet upto the expectations of the Appropriate Authority and tension headaches thinking when the next surprise inspection will be done and what shortcomings will the inspection team find in our clinics and whether our clinic will survive the inspection or wheter it will be sealed for want of a name-plate or mismatched signature or incomplete address or may be a wrong phone no.
We are all qualified professionals and we wish to abide by all the rules and regulations of this Act. It is in fact our moral duty to do all that we can to prevent this female foeticide. If whatever we are doing presently under the Act has actually helped in curtailing the declining sex ratio, then we will continue to do so with joyous heart ......
But my friends, that has not happened except in a very few places.
What the govt. needs is not an Act, but a Will....to catch the culprits and to bring them to justice.
Let the members of PNDT committees, the law enforcing officers, the various NGOs, the press people....let them discreetly ask their maids/ sweepers,other helpers....and they will find out where the prenatal sex determination is being done / who is violating the law / and where are those females going for sex selective abortion ...... Then it is upto the authorities to take action.
And please please educate the society......that is the only thing that will decrease the demand and hence dry up the supply of sex determination places.

you r doing good jos but doing cases on doctors who r not really doing sex determination on due to incomplete record.please think on those doctors after all there carrios get in risk.

yes i am agree with you but you are really doing harashment of the doctors who are not doing sex determination ,only in f-form mistakes please dont do like this this will not improve your sex ratio.remove the culprits who does sex determination

hello..this is worst act as far as doctors are concerned.No doubt it will reduce sex determination but act has certain defects needs to be cured.the punishment of three years is imposed for defects in maintaining records under PNDT act this is not justice to doctors as doctor is person and to make a error is human being then the doctor shouldnt be punished for such small thing i.e defects in filling the forms or maintaining records.The act aims at controlling the sex determination.hence punishment of three years is ok for sex determination.secondly ,the raid shouldnt be allowed without taking confidential permission from health department and after satisfaction of necessity of raid the appropriate authority should conduct the raid.The appropriate authority must have one legal expert to advise.more to write but next time friends....from :umesh A.Shinde advocate satara mo.9822637138

I WANT TO APPLY FOR RENEWAL OF REGISTRATION UNDER pc pndt aCT.i WANT AFFIDAVIT PROFORMA. hOW CNGET IT.

From Anil Chavan,

I may suggest following provision for betterment of personal and public health environment;
1. The Central/state government should set up a human health regulatory authority such as CERC / SERC (Central / state electricity regulatory commision) and its fuctionaries at bottom level (obudsman at state level and cosumer grievences redressal forum at district level) and local health grievences at Tahsil level.
This will more helpful to implemets the rules and regulation with the participation of patients, local elected body, interested person and social organisation. Also it would give the feedback to the respective Governments’ authorities and legislature authories to frame and review the health National policy to save public revenue and personal money of patients
2. Health literacy education programme should be chartout for the schools, colleges and out of school to all ages public
22/11/2010

Nothing is explained about the qualification of the person(Doctor)who can perform prenatal diagnostic procedure

SEAL OF MACHINE IS NOT NECESSARY AS NO ANY MACHINE STORE THE IMAGE OTHERWISE SEALING OF MACHINE ACT AS BLACKMAILING TO DOCTOR BY APPROPRIATE AUTHORITY