Haryana to install software for monitoring ultrasound machines

Software 'Silent Observer' to monitor ultra sound machines installed in hospitals.

PTI | May 17, 2011



With Haryana among the states with skewed sex ratio, the state government is mulling installing ultrasound machines in civil hospitals linked to a special software for their monitoring.

To begin with, the software 'Silent Observer' will be installed at civil hospital, Panchkula and either of the hospitals at Gurgaon or Faridabad.

The software would provide complete details of the ultrasound machine daily to prevent misuse, a meeting chaired by state Health Minister Rao Narender Singh, here was told today.

In Haryana, the child sex ratio is 830 while the overall sex ratio of the country is 877.

The state government will also take up the issue of "misuse" of mobile ultrasound machines with the governments of neighbouring states like Delhi, Rajasthan, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh to ensure effective implementation of provisions of Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (PC and PNDT) Act.

Besides, special PNDT Cells would be set up in all districts of Haryana.

He said that improvement of the sex ratio in the state was one of the top priorities and there was a need for strict enforcement of the Act.
 

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