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Health ministry to soon meet IRIA to address issues related to improper implementation of PCPNDT Rules

Shardul Nautiyal, Mumbai October 27 , 2018

The Union health ministry’s Central Supervisory Board (CSB) which regulates the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) violation in the country, is likely to hold a meeting soon with Indian Radiological and Imaging Association (IRIA) to resolve issues related to record keeping and sealing of sonography machines.

In order to keep record-keeping out of the ambit of criminal provisions of the Act, union health ministry has approved in principle to amend PCPNDT rules following representations in January this year made by the radiologists and sonologists over the past six years.

A committee under the Union health ministry had also been constituted to recommend separate provisions for record- keeping and actual sex selection under the Act.

Accordingly, the committee is likely to lay down guidelines for a 3-tier categorization of offences based on the severity or seriousness of the violation to make it more practical for serving the desired purpose for which it was framed.

This comes at a time when IRIA has also urged the Union health ministry to issue clarification to all the state and central government authorities towards implementation of the six months training (SMT) rules 2014 which stipulates a medical practitioner to be eligible for performing ultrasound test after undergoing a six months course known as the Fundamentals in Abdomino- Pelvic Ultrasonography- Level one for MBBS doctors.

The radiologist association in a letter addressed to the health ministry has sought this clarification so that the importance of SMT rules, 2014 under Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act (PC&PNDT Act) and the stay granted in the matter by the Supreme Court (SC) of India is not undermined.

After several PILs in courts across the country, the apex court has however given a stay on the matter and next hearing on the matter is awaited.

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