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New Delhi: Ultrasonography (USG) machines that can track foetus development in the mothers womb but would not reveal gender are in the works a development that will likely pave the way for easier access to USGs in cases of complicated pregnancies...
The largest network of private hospitals in the country Association of Healthcare Providers of India (AHPI) has reached out to top ultrasound makers to develop the software to allow operators to produce scans without revealing the sex of the foetus, ThePrint has learned...
The AHPI, which claims to represent nearly 15,000 hospitals, including most of the corporate chains, said that the reach of USGs has been limited, especially in the tier-2 and -3 towns and the rural areas, because the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act governs their use...
However, in 2003, an amendment to the law brought ultrasound clinics under it, with the law rechristened as the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act due to the apparent ineffectiveness of the PNDT in improving sex ratios over the years...
I am hoping that AI-enabled USG greatly reduces the chances of its misuse for sex determination and in due course proliferation of USG across the country rises, he said.. Over the years, many public health specialists have pointed out that the provisions under the PCPNDT have adverse effects on the ability of rural Indians to access diagnostic ultrasonography...
