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Vimochana stages dharna

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, APRIL 27. Activists of Vimochana, a forum for women's rights, staged a dharna in front of a private clinic in Rajajinagar on Tuesday.

They claimed that the clinic had been conducting sex determination tests. This was in contravention of the Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques Act, they said.

On an appeal from Vimochana, the District Health Officer, Srinivas, conducted a raid on the clinic and reportedly found that the ultrasound scanning machine, allegedly used to conduct sex determination tests, was missing from the clinic. According to the Act, a scanning machine registered under a clinic's address cannot be removed from the premises without giving notice to the public health authorities. The activists said that in November 2003, Vimochana used a decoy patient and found out that the doctors at the clinic were conducting sex determination tests.

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