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Doctors threaten to stop conducting pregnancy ultrasound tests
Issue Date: Jul 20, 2012
Radiologists across India are contemplating a nation-wide strike on August 1 to demand rollback of amendments introduced in the sex determination prohibition Act. The amendments to the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Technique (prohibition of sex selection) or PCPNDT Act of 1996 were published by the Ubion health ministry in the gazette notification on June 4. The amendments are meant to make the law more stringent.
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