Berhampur: A dead body of a foetus was found near Gate bazaar square in the city by Bada Bazaar police on Thursday here. The dead body was thrown away at the roadside. Bada Bazaar police reached at the spot immediately after getting news from Gate bazaar people and recovered the dead body of the foetus.
This is not for the first time police recovered the dead body of a foetus. The mushrooming of Nursing homes in the city and the secretly use of ultrasound method for foeticide is not a new thing also. Foeticide is a social malady, which we need to eradicate from the society, says the intellectuals and social activists of the city.
“The nursing homes are throwing the dead bodies into the roadside which is not fair”, said a businessman Krishna of Gate bazaar area.
“We have formed a squad in the direction of the District Magistrate of Ganjam to keep eye on the nursing homes. They are working routinely. We are also trying to aware the people about this heinous crime of foeticide”, said Chief District Medical Officer Suryakiran Patnaik on Thursday.
Before, Ganjam district Collector Dr Kishan Kumar had expressed serious concern over female foeticide and the use of ultrasound for determining sex in the district. He formed a taskforce team to check female foeticide in thedistrict.
In a meeting recently organised at the Collectorate on female foeticide, the Collector rued, “Some ultrasound clinics in the district are clandestinely practicing sex determination and female foeticide. To keep an eye on such clinics, there is already a task force formed by the district administration which is assigned to submit a report to the administration once in every three months. But I am concerned over the way the task force is working.” The Collector revealed that as per information there were 32 ultrasound clinics in the district. A few have applied for renewal of their licenses. But the administration has no information as to their activities.
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