The Team

Server-based application for the effective implementation of the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act 1994

The Project

“It is unfortunate that for one reason or the other, the practice of female infanticide still prevails despite the fact that the gentle touch of a daughter and her voice has soothing effect on the parents.”

-- Supreme court, CEHAT Vs. UOI, 2000

Quotable Quote

Naked Truth

India makes a whopping business of $100 million out of imaging techniques

Half million girls are killed every year

There is crime involved violating not one but many laws; the PNDT at 1994, the section 307 IPC (of attempt to murder) , crime of abetment of murder, etc

PNDT Act : Starting Point

The Supreme Court, taking a serious view of the onslaught of sex-selective discriminatory practices by the medical fraternity, and the connection it may have with the use of pre-natal sex determination, directed the Centre to implement the PC & PNDT Act in all its aspects. The order came following a public interest petition filed by the centre for the Enquiry of Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT), the Mahila Sarvangeen Utkarsh Mandal (MASUM) and Dr. Sabu George, who had done extensive research in this area.

PC & PNDT ACT

How it works

Stage 1

Registration of Genetic Counselling Centre, Genetic Laboratory and Genetic Clinic

An application for registration shall be made to the Appropriate Authority, in duplicate, in Form A, duly accompanied by an Affidavit containing- the details of the centre and certified personnel

Stage 2

Approval :

Having regard to the advice of the Advisory Committee the Appropriate Authority shall grant a certificate of registration, in duplicate, in Form B to the applicant. One copy of the certificate of registration shall be displayed by the registered Genetic Counselling Centre, Genetic Laboratory, Genetic Clinic, Ultrasound Clinic or Imaging Centre at a conspicuous place at its place of business

Stage 3

Maintenance and preservation of records : Every Genetic Counselling Centre, Genetic

Laboratory, Genetic Clinic, Ultrasound Clinic and Imaging Centre has to maintain every details for two years. And have to submit all the details such as two-page form, images, declaration by the doctor and patient

PNDT : Modus Operandi

Patient Scanning Centre(PNDT Regd.) DMO

Corporation/Local Body

State PNDT Authority

National PNDT

Authority

Report Report

Cross Checking

Let’s Assume..

There are not less than 25 scanning centres in Calicut city and the averages scanning per day at a single centre is 15.

That Means...

Average scannings per month : 9375

As per the act, a multi-page report of nearly 10,000 scannings will rush into the DMO office at the end of every month

Repetition is still a possibility as one patient can go to different centres

Theory of Impossibility

And moreover, to track the child mortality, the data has to be re-opened and cross check with the birth registration details at the corporation office after a few months.

  So, as a whole, the possibility of proper

implementation of the act using the current procedure is very low

The Remedy

Indiaultrasound introducing.. A server-based system To reduce the paper works, we suggest, all the scanning

centres registered under PNDT act can be connected via Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) technology or via regular internet connection, so that a server in the DMO office can save all the necessary details while the scanning is being performed. 

Stage 1:

Setting up of a server at DMO office...

PS:Can be placed with the help of National Informatics Centre

Stage 2:

All the scanning centres registered under PNDT act can be connected to this server via DICOM or net connection (later if we can make DICOM mandatory for all scanning machines, like what is the case in the US, it is easy)

All the details inserting at the scanning centre will automatically come to the server at the DMO office.

Stage 3:

A software that can save and register all the data can be programmed and installed at the server in the DMO office. These files can be saved for two years, so that we can cross check the details at any given time.

IUS Idea

PatientReportDICOM,Internet

Report ReportServer to Server

Advantages

1. Auto recording of all scanned patient data2. Unique patient ID to avoid repetition that

occurs via scanning at different centres3. Less paper work4. Easy comparison of records with data in the

centres and stored in the server5. Easy crosschecking with birth registration at

the corporation

Advantages

6. Easy to find out faulty users7. Easy to transfer reports between Authentic

Authority (district, state and national)8. Less chance of missing reports/ data9. Better data back up10. Easy to search and re-check at any point of

time PS: With the computerisation of the corporations and village

office getting pace, the cross checking also will be simple and can be done at any time

Is it possible?

 Yes... We, indiaultrasound, ready to take the first

step in setting up the system at Kozhikode Corporation in an experimental basis, with the help of district administration, and district medical officers with no profit motive and ready to handover the same to government after proving its success

Requirements:

Authentication from PNDT authorities Authentication from District administration Technical students to connect scanning centres with the

server Facilities to place the server in the DMO office And obviously funding from PNDT. And with the

authority using NGO for the implementation of the act already, it can be possible

 

Thank You…

“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”

---Neil Armstrong's words on first setting foot on the moon, in 1969

Indiaultrasound all set to take that small step to Save Our Girl Child