PNDT ACT Right to life, not to be loved?

A law can only make sure that the parents don't kill their daughter. It can not force them to love her.

PRESENTED BY Dr Hiren Dr Nanavati Dr Aparna Dr Vrushali Priti Dr Eshita

Subi Rashmi Dr Sunil Charlotte Sonia Snehali Dinesh

OBJECTIVE

To make our hospital PCPNDT compliant

Eliminate all sources of errors in Non-compliance of provisions laid down in PCPNDT act

All the guidelines to be laid down for proper implementation the act

Strict vigilance to monitor the guidelines

PROCESS Apply for a license by filling form ‘A’ for all

sonography machines/2D Echo machines, CT scans, MRI.

Apply for the invasive technique license along with the Non-invasive.

Identify all areas in the hospital where sonography will be conducted using the portable sonography machines and take the requisite licenses for all of these.

Identify all the people involved in operating the machines and confirming that the fulfill all the criterias laid down in the PNDT act.

Submit the names of all the employees utilising the machines.

AFTER THE REGISTRATION

Keep copy of PNDT Act in registered centre.

Display of registration certificate in centre.

Display of board in the premises in English and Local language.

No advertisement relating to pre-conception and pre-natal determination of sex.

Regular record keeping.

STRUCTURE

Hospital

Administrato

r

• Application for registration• Regular renewals• Surveillance and monitoring compliance

HOD-Gynac

and Radiology

• Surveillance and monitoring of compliance in their individual departments

Nursing Superintendent

• Record keeping• Timely submissions of monthly reports

floor

managers

• Ensuring proper registration of all patients• Maintaining relevant records of all patients• Ensuring compliance of PNDT in their respective

department

CONTROLS All machines should have a system

generated renewal reminder in HIS. Completed form ‘F’(all blanks) to be

double checked by senior authority before the patient is taken up for investigation.

Proper diagnostic records should be stored using PACS for future surveillance.

Mumbai City has only 898 girls per 1000 boys in the age group 0-6 years.

Evidence suggests that the PNDT act has not had the intended effect.

The declining sex ratio in the age group

0-6 exemplifies the failure of the PNDT

act.

This is supported by the sex ratio at birth:

131 boys per 100 girls

[Rapid household survey in Greater Mumbai]

17.3% women in Mumbai want more boys than girls, while only 2.8% want more girls than boys

There is almost no difference between the sex preference in Mumbai’s slum and non-slum areas.