GUWAHATI: Hospitals throughout Assam have been requested to report and report teenage pregnancies to police amid a sudden dip within the variety of suspected underage women visiting rural well being centres for being pregnant and antenatal exams because the crackdown on baby marriage began final week.
The directive, verbal as of now, is supposed to assist the police monitor circumstances of kid marriage which have gone undetected up to now. Kandarpa Das, joint director of well being companies in Kamrup (Metro) district, stated hospitals inside his jurisdiction had been taking “special care” to report suspected teenage pregnancies on the directions of the nationwide well being mission’s state workplace.
In Goalpara, the joint director of well being companies just lately instructed the workplace of the registrar of births and deaths to submit weekly lists of beginning certificates issued to youngsters born to teenage moms. The data has been sought with retrospective impact since January 1.
“Any pregnant teenager will get the medical care she requires, as was always the case. But hospitals now have the additional responsibility of tracking the number of such pregnancies. We haven’t issued an official order in this regard, although it’s being adhered to,” state director of well being companies Nil Madhab Das stated Wednesday.
Kandarpa Das stated his workplace hadn’t acquired any report of ladies beneath 18 visiting district hospitals in Kamrup for being pregnant exams because the police crackdown on baby marriage final week led to 2,500-odd arrests. “Pregnant teenagers are possibly avoiding tests for fear of their families being investigated.”
The directive, verbal as of now, is supposed to assist the police monitor circumstances of kid marriage which have gone undetected up to now. Kandarpa Das, joint director of well being companies in Kamrup (Metro) district, stated hospitals inside his jurisdiction had been taking “special care” to report suspected teenage pregnancies on the directions of the nationwide well being mission’s state workplace.
In Goalpara, the joint director of well being companies just lately instructed the workplace of the registrar of births and deaths to submit weekly lists of beginning certificates issued to youngsters born to teenage moms. The data has been sought with retrospective impact since January 1.
“Any pregnant teenager will get the medical care she requires, as was always the case. But hospitals now have the additional responsibility of tracking the number of such pregnancies. We haven’t issued an official order in this regard, although it’s being adhered to,” state director of well being companies Nil Madhab Das stated Wednesday.
Kandarpa Das stated his workplace hadn’t acquired any report of ladies beneath 18 visiting district hospitals in Kamrup for being pregnant exams because the police crackdown on baby marriage final week led to 2,500-odd arrests. “Pregnant teenagers are possibly avoiding tests for fear of their families being investigated.”
