Super initiative by a doc to save Indian girls at birth!
[h=1]Ganesh Rakh: The doctor who delivers India's girls for free[/h]By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Pune
Image copyright Anushree Fadnavis Image caption Dr Ganesh Rakh says the 2011 census figures made him realise how skewed India's gender ratio was An Indian doctor is on a unique mission to save the female child - he waives his fee if a girl is born in his hospital.
Dr Ganesh Rakh calls it his "tiny contribution" to improving the lot of the girl child in a country where a traditional preference for boys and an easy availability of antenatal sex screening has resulted in a skewed gender ratio.
In 1961, there were 976 girls for every 1,000 boys under the age of seven. According to the latest census figures released in 2011, that figure has dropped to a dismal 914.
Dr Rakh, who started a small hospital in the western Indian city of Pune in 2007, says that whenever a pregnant woman came for her delivery, all her relatives would come with the hope that the baby would be a boy.
"The biggest challenge for a doctor is to tell relatives that a patient has died. For me, it was equally difficult to tell families that they'd had a daughter," he says.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35379231
[h=1]Ganesh Rakh: The doctor who delivers India's girls for free[/h]By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Pune
- 31 January 2016
- From the section India
Dr Ganesh Rakh calls it his "tiny contribution" to improving the lot of the girl child in a country where a traditional preference for boys and an easy availability of antenatal sex screening has resulted in a skewed gender ratio.
In 1961, there were 976 girls for every 1,000 boys under the age of seven. According to the latest census figures released in 2011, that figure has dropped to a dismal 914.
Dr Rakh, who started a small hospital in the western Indian city of Pune in 2007, says that whenever a pregnant woman came for her delivery, all her relatives would come with the hope that the baby would be a boy.
"The biggest challenge for a doctor is to tell relatives that a patient has died. For me, it was equally difficult to tell families that they'd had a daughter," he says.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35379231
