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Dear All,

It has been observed that PC & PNDT Act has become destructive tool in the hands of appropriate authorities. Every CMO uses it at its own whims and Fancy. At so many instances the ultrasound machines are being sealed on drop of a hat. The objections are being raised that improper filling of Form “F”. The referral slips do not have obstetric history, the record is not proper. Everybody knows how the record is being kept at civil hospitals versus private diagnostic centre. Every Civil Surgeon feels that by Gagging the Radiologist the female feticide will stop. But alas the results are not much encouraging. We need to dig in the details of this social evil and better results could be obtained. Not by keeping radiologist as evil doer but as a team member.

here are some suggestions to control skewed sex ratio

They are laying more focus on methodology to fill the Form F and Paperwork rather nabbing the culprits. Which generally proves to be a futile effort? As someone doing this illegal work will not keep any record of this act. And will keep the timing at odd hours when the controlling authorities are least expected to <!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } -->nab them. More over it is possible only in connivance with the authorities itself in some cases. But most of the civil surgeons are struggling hard to stop female feticide.

Buyer’s Guide: How to buy a good Ultrasound Scanner.

After spending a decade in medical college and acquiring the much sought after degree of M.D. Radio-Diagnosis a young radiologist has two options:

1. Go and join some Job.
2. Start his own Clinic.

First option is relatively easy one and one does not have to worry about finances and other problems like getting the patients and buying Machines.

Second option is difficult preposition, as one has to face the problem of arranging the finances and buying the equipments which can be a tiring phase during the initial months.

It is that period when you finally decided to open a centre for yourself and started looking for Machine after arranging a site for your clinic. You send a signal and the representative of various companies start a bee line to you. They give you so many options, that you get confused. Every one will speak a language which you will find either Greek or Latin. This is not you have studied in your degree. There are so many confusing terms developed by individual companies to confuse customer. Like cross beam technology, Matrix probes or Aplipre, Advance Dynamic Flow, Quick view & Iassist etc.

Leaving a secure and comfortable job was not an easy decision to take. It took me about three years of my residency to constantly think about it and whenever I asked my colleagues and seniors all most all forbade me to quit the job. It was conveyed that it is foolish if you quit the govt. job. Only a few people in government setup asked me to quit the job as early as possible.

The idea of leaving Govt. job struck me when I got a residency in Govt. Medical College, Amritsar. It was a nice and heartening to join in Radiodiagnosis department. As it is known about Amritsar People’s hospitality, I felt at home in the department. But the condition of the medical college and department was pathetic with only few working equipments with very slow replacement. We did not have MRI scanner in our department. Yet our teachers had a large collection of MRI films and interventions. We were sent to P.G.I. Chandigarh for hands on training for a month.

I was posted to Civil Hospital, Amritsar a prestigious place to work. Work was quite impressive, about 100 X-rays/day and Ultrasound about 30 cases/day. The annoying part was that we had to do about 10-15 medico-legal cases/day. There was no Colour Doppler/CT Scanner/ MRI scans. I was missing my days in the medical college and my quest to excel in the field was increasing.