PATIALA – In yet another case of violation of the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PNDT) Act and the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, a team of health officials today raided a hospital at Model Town here and found that MTP was being carried out on a four-month pregnant woman.
Acting on a tip off, a team of health officials, including district family planning officer Sanjay Singh, senior medical officer Sajjan Singh, and three gynaecologists, including Dr Anju, chairman of the PNDT Advisery Committee, raided Mission Hospital, run by Dr Meena Garg.
Giving information in this regard, Patiala civil surgeon Varinder Singh Mohi said, “Following a tip-off, we immediately sent a team at the hospital and caught the woman red-handed. She admitted that she had come to the hospital for an abortion after she got the sex of the foetus tested from a private laboratory in Leela Bhawan, which confirmed that she is carrying a female child. The woman had already been given drugs to arouse artificial pain. She also informed that she already had three children, two daughters and a son”.
He said the team of gynaecologists examined the woman and confirmed that she was about 14-16 months pregnant.
