Sunday,
May 6, 2001
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This is an industry in
which you have eager consumers and equally ‘efficient’ service
providers. It is not easy to break the nexus between the patient’s
family, the doctors and the radiologists. Will social awareness help
solve the problem?... In all fairness, shouldn’t we first reserve a
place for a female
foetus in the womb much before we can
reserve seats for adult women in Parliament, asks Aruti
Nayar
ACCORDING
TO the 2001 census, the sex ratio in Haryana has declined from 869 to
820 females per 1000 males. The lowest ratio in the state is in
Kurukshetra, 770 females per 1000 males, and Ambala with 784 females
per 1000 males is not far behind. As one travels in the dusty haze and
scorching heat towards Ambala, the effort is just to piece together
few random pointers and peep into stories behind impersonal data and
cold statistics. After all, it is human traits such as the need for
social approval, longing for the continuity of the lineage and the
ever-present lure of Mammon that lie behind such a disturbing
demographic trend.
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