Over 400 clinics across Pune district providing radiology services like CT scans, MRI scans, angiography, interventional radiology and mammography will remain closed for three days from December 7. Radiologists, sonologists and gynaecologists are about to express their strong grievance against the unjust implementation of the Pre-Conception, Pre-Natal Determination Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, 1994 through a 3 days long strike across Pune district, Maharashtra. Some sources said it might be extended even for a week. They have also decided to the take out a protest rally in the city on December 7.
In Pune, 54 cases were registered against doctors under the PCPNDT Act in the last few years. Of these, 51 doctors were booked only because of clerical mistakes in filling up From“F”, which is mandatory to be filled up before undergoing sonography. The act mentions, “The record to be maintained…
