Concern over declining child sex ratio

Bhubaneswar: August 01, 2010

Medical practitioners here pledged to play active role in taking their colleges who would practise sex selection to task while expressing concerns over declining child sex ratio in the State. Orissa branch of Indian Medical Association (IMA) in association with the State government and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) organised a workshop to sensitise doctors in the drive of sex selection elimination and strengthening implementation of PC-PNDT Act in the State. Addressing the conference, National Vice-President of IMA, Vijay C. Punjabi said the association had adopted four-pronged approach to nail the black sheep indulged in sex selection.

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