Sometimes you see so much of negativity around you that when
something positive happens, you tend to disbelieve or dismiss even. This is
true specifically in the case of Indian female.
So when there are increasing cases of killing the girls at
the hands of doctors, even before their birth, this comes as real good news. Or
rather an extraordinary gesture! It is genuinely nice, even if as an exception.
There is a hospital called Medicare Multi specialty Hospital
in Hadapsar, Pune and there works a doctor by the name Dr. Ganesh Rakh.
Contrary to the malpractices of sex determination and
female foeticide, this doctor actually has unique way to propagate the
awareness and enthusiasm about the girl child. He does not charge his fee and
the hospital bills only if a girl
child is born.
He has not charged anything for the deliveries of 135
newborn girls till now. He started this initiative a year back. Despite the
naysayers he continued this with gusto.
So there is no fee from the time a lady expecting delivery of
her baby is admitted to his hospital, till she is discharged. In fact the guys
at the hospital try to celebrate birth of a girl child by distributing sweets.
What more? Apparently as many as 2400 doctors, from Pune,
Solapur and Beed got in contact with this doctor to express solidarity, after
reports in Pune Mirror, Sakaal Times, CNN IBN and other media. And these gynecologists
and radiologists promised to do their best to prevent sex determination and
female foeticide. They have decided to follow Dr. Rakh and give concessional
medical treatment to families in which girls are born.
I mean in the last so many months, we have been hearing a
lot of female foeticide, discrimination of girls, crime against women and what
not. So when one gets to know about something like this one has a feeling that
all is not wrong with our society.
There is some concrete hope!
