Thiruvananthapuram, October 5 (BPNS)
The state health department has made it mandatory for the assistant professors working in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department in the state-run medical colleges to undertake a six-month training programme. The training programme in Ultrasound and Competency-based Assessment will be conducted by the Department of Radiodiagnosis. According to the health department, the said programme will help in ensuring better patient care and reduce mortality and morbidity.
“The health ministry had already issued a direction of this kind to all states/UTs. We are now complying with the same. The Director of Medical Education has been directed to take further action in this regard. A compliance report will also be furnished to the Department of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India urgently,” said a health official.
The mandatory assessment exam is meant for all doctors who practice under the Pre-conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act 1994. The said act provides for the prohibition of sex selection, before or after conception, and for regulation of pre-natal diagnostic techniques to detect genetic abnormalities or metabolic disorders or chromosomal abnormalities or certain congenital malformations or sex-linked disorders, and for the prevention of their misuse for sex determination leading to female foeticide and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.According to the ministry, the existing registered medical practitioners, who are conducting ultrasound procedures in a genetic clinic or ultrasound clinic, or imaging center based on one year of experience.
