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Doctors propose unique ID to check sex determination

• TOI Kolhapur Wed,03 Feb 2016
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• Summary: "He added, "For all the subsequent tests and medical procedures, including the delivery, it would be mandatory to submit the registration number at the maternity hospitals. Instead, we are trying to identify the foetus and give it a certain registration number like Aadhaar or PAN. "We are sex determination of the foetus. "Seven years ago, a similar idea was mooted to the state government after all the sonography machines in the district were connected through the Silent Observer software to keep a check on sex determination tests. This can be a unique identity and will help track the progress of foetus.
  
  Kolhapur: Taking a cue from Union minister Maneka Gandhi's suggestion that sex determination tests should be mandatory during pregnancy, the city's medical fraternity has come up with the idea of tracking every pregnancy through the unique identification using sonography.The proposal suggests that a unique registration number with the state, district and village can be given to the foetus during the third month of the pregnancy. Parents would have to produce the same number while registering the birth of baby and getting the birth certificate from the government agencies.Doctors from Kolhapur are drafting the concept and are planning to give it to the Centre for implementation. They had submitted a similar proposal to the state government seven years ago, but it was never considered.Ajit Patil, vice president of Kolhapur Obstetrics and Gynaecology Society, said the organisation is busy in preparing the proposal.
  
  "We are sex determination of the foetus. Instead, we are trying to identify the foetus and give it a certain registration number like Aadhaar or PAN. This can be a unique identity and will help track the progress of foetus."Union women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi recently said the Centre was considering considering lifting the two-decade-old ban on sex determination of the fetus and making the process mandatory.City-based medical practitioner Niranjan Shah said, "When doctors conduct sonography during the third month of the pregnancy and while filling online forms to submit the details to the monitoring agencies, the government should assign a unique registration number to the foetus indicating place, taluka, district, state and other details."He added, "For all the subsequent tests and medical procedures, including the delivery, it would be mandatory to submit the registration number at the maternity hospitals.
  
  Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolhapur/Doctors-propose-unique-ID-to-check-sex-determination/articleshow/50830145.cms