fogsi-smriti save girl child news letter

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Please G, Save Every Girl Child.... Give them the right to be born.... spread this message very loud & clear ..... On the auspicious eve of Raksha Bandhan festival in the spirit of Raksha Bandhan..... j{ kkc a/ ku d s i kou v ol j i j v ki l H kh d k s g kfn Zd c / kkb Z; k W a ... Dr. Chandra Prakasha c sV h cp kv k s c sV h i< +kv k s Make a new Indian Woman Literate & Healthier Educate Prevent & Eradicate only you can make a difference NEW S LETTER The selective abortion of female fetuses is most common in areas where cultural norms value male over female children. The basic mindset has to change and accept that girls are equally and probably more supportive to the family. Today girls are taking responsible roles in the society, offices and in all spheres. Creating awareness amongst all strata of society and educating people about this basic fact is so essential. I am confident that once the wave of change is set in the minds of some people it will create a ripple effect and set the motion and..... this is what Smriti is doing creating that change... I hope more and many more FOGSI societies join hands with Smriti!! Dr. Suchitra Pandit MESSAGE Dr. Neharika Malhotra Bora [email protected] EDITORIAL EDITORIAL Dr. Jaideep Malhotra "I am the one who gives birth to life ! I would fight for right of my unborn daughter " this should be motto of all the women . For our weakness we can't blame any body but us ! My call for all women get up and demand your rights at all levels ! Ham hain to sirishti hai! We are responsible for this Universe ! How can we be looked down upon ! Dr. Maninder Ahuja Another New Year comes and we still face the same hurdle of "Saving the girl child". India is growing dynamically in every field, today the rapid growth in economy, innovative technologies, and improved infrastructure has become nation's pride. But bias against the girl child is still prevailing in the country. The most shocking fact is that the innovative and the hard high end technologies like biopsy, ultrasound, ultra scan are brutally killing the Indian girl child. WE UNDERSTAND THAT IF THE SERVICE PROVIDER SAYS NO.. THEN IT WILL BE A NO. WE KNOW SOME OF OUR CLAN ARE STILL INDULGING IN THIS. WE HAVE POINTED OUT THAT MAJORITY OF SUCH PRACTICE IS BEING DONE BY NON MEDICAL QUACKS AND SO IS THE ABORTIONS. WE UNDERSTAND IT'S A SOCIAL PROBLEM AND A SOCIAL REVOLUTION HAS TO BE STARTED AGAINT THIS. This is like an EPIDEMIC which cannot be eradicated easily ,But YES we can definitely bring about a change by raising a voice. Lets join hands and pledge to save our DAUGHTERS. Thank you We need to tackle the problems of WEEEEP Women Problems of Make a new Indian women literate & healthy. Education Empowerment Employment Environment Educate a girl and give her wings to fly. 1

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Page 1: FOGSI-SMRITI save girl child news letter

Please G, Save Every Girl Child.... Give them the right to be born.... spread this message very loud & clear..... On the auspicious eve of Raksha Bandhan festival in the spirit of Raksha Bandhan..... j{kkca/ku ds ikou volj ij vki lHkh dks gkfnZd c/kkbZ;kWa...

Dr. Chandra Prakasha

csVh cpkvks csVh i<+kvksMake a new Indian Woman

Literate & Healthier Educate Prevent & Eradicate

only you can make a difference

NEWS LETTER

The selective abortion of female fetuses is most common in areas where cultural norms value male over female children.

The basic mindset has to change and accept that girls are equally and probably more supportive to the family. Today girls are taking responsible roles in the society, offices and in all spheres. Creating awareness amongst all strata of society and educating people about this basic fact is so essential. I am confident that once the wave of change is set in the minds of some people it will create a ripple effect and set the motion and..... this is what Smriti is doing creating that change... I hope more and many more FOGSI societies join hands with Smriti!!

Dr. Suchitra Pandit

MESSAGE

Dr. Neharika Malhotra [email protected]

EDITORIALEDITORIAL

Dr. Jaideep Malhotra

"I am the one who gives birth to life ! I would fight for right of my unborn daughter " this should be motto of all the women . For our weakness we can't blame any body but us ! My call for all women get up and demand your rights at all

levels !

Ham hain to sirishti hai! We are responsible for this Universe ! How can we be looked down upon !

Dr. Maninder Ahuja

Another New Year comes and we still face the same hurdle of "Saving the girl child".

India is growing dynamically in every field, today the rapid growth in economy, innovative technologies, and improved infrastructure has become nation's pride. But bias against the girl child is still prevailing in the country.

The most shocking fact is that the innovative and the hard high end t e c h n o l o g i e s l i k e b i o p s y, ultrasound, ultra scan are brutally killing the Indian girl child. WE UNDERSTAND THAT IF THE SERVICE PROVIDER SAYS NO.. THEN IT WILL BE A NO.

WE KNOW SOME OF OUR CLAN ARE STILL INDULGING IN THIS. WE HAVE POINTED OUT THAT MAJORITY OF SUCH PRACTICE IS BEING DONE BY NON MEDICAL QUACKS AND SO IS THE ABORTIONS.

WE UNDERSTAND IT'S A SOCIAL P R O B L E M A N D A S O C I A L REVOLUTION HAS TO BE STARTED AGAINT THIS.

This is like an EPIDEMIC which cannot be eradicated easily ,But YES we can definitely bring about a change by raising a voice. Lets join hands and pledge to save our DAUGHTERS.

Thank you

We need to tackle the problems of WEEEEP

Women Problems of

Make a new Indian women literate & healthy.

Education

Empowerment

Employment

Environment

Educate a girl and give her wings to fly.

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Dr Hema Divakar , President FOGSI that all kinds of violence against women are on the rise. A speaks about FOGSI Campgain for survey conducted by Oxfam India and Social & Rural Value, Safety & Respect for women— Research Institute has revealed that 17 per cent of working

women experienced sexual harassment. The maximum number of sexual harassment cases was reported among

With the increase in the number of labourers (29 per cent); domestic helps (23 per cent) and incidents of atrocities against women small scale units (16 per cent), which reflect the in the nation, the Federation of vulnerability of the underprivileged sections of society. A

Obstetric & Gynaecological Societies of India (FOGSI), report released by Ministry of Women & Child the apex body for all Obstetricians & Gynaecologists in Development a few years ago has revealed that an the country, launched a new CSR initiative – Social estimated 150 million girls under the age of 18 years have Innovation– to create Value, Safety & Respect (VSR) for been subjected to sexual harassment at home and at women by ushering in synergy among all stakeholders educational institutes. concerned in an event titled Naari Samman 2013 .The

These are disturbing facts. Sex-selective abortion and FOGSI, as a socially-conscious organization, intends to infanticide have led to lopsided sex ratios in several North tackle the issues of atrocities against women, be it Indian states; crimes against women continue to rise and domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, dowry of late awareness has led to increase in the number of harassment, gender-based discrimination, and violence- incidents. However, we need a paradigm shift to change through long-term plans with the support of stakeholders. the attitude of society towards the girl child and women. The Social Innovation CSR initiative is an extension of Crimes are perpetrated against women from the womb to FOGSI's 'Innovation to Implementation' theme for 2013 the tomb. The FOGSI is making concerted efforts to tackle under which several path-breaking innovations aimed at them in a systematic manner by way of creating awareness improving the women's healthcare services were and educating the people concerned. FOGSI has a strong successfully implemented. network of obstetricians and gynaecologists across the

As part of the Social Innovation CSR initiative, a day-long country and we will leverage them to tackle these societal conclave titled 'Naari Samman' was organized in Mumbai inconsistencies.on 14th of November 2013.The conclave brought

FOGSI's Vision 2022, which is aimed at changing the way together policy-makers, legal fraternity, NGOs, key society and people perceive women in the next one opinion leaders and bureaucrats to identify the way decade in the country. Vision 2022 aims at:forward to create VSR for women . On the occasion, the

Women's Health Forum (WHF) – India was launched. The (a) Saving the Girl child should become a non-issue by the WHF will ensure that this mission is completed successfully. year 2022.

There are several issues affecting women today and they (b) Education and empowerment of women is a can be broadly classified into social and criminal, but both continuous effort, and are interlinked. Be it female feticide, child trafficking, (c) Ensure that adolescent healthcare is in place as 360 dowry deaths, domestic violence, sexual violence, rape million youth in India journey towards wellness with or gender-based discrimination and missing girls, all need through anaemia eradication, sex education, the active support of the legal fraternity, policy-makers, vaccinations, contraception, and HIV/AIDS careand medical communities.

(d) Tackling the tsunami of gestational diabetes and For instance, Haryana has the worst male-female ratio in cancer cervix and reduce the burden of non India and it is below the national average (943 female communicable diseases against 1000 males). In Haryana, it is 879 females followed

The meet helped to create a consensus in favour of long-by Jammu & Kashmir (889 females); Uttar Pradesh (912 term solutions with in depth discussions on root causes females) and Bihar (918 females) and Rajasthan (926 and collective efforts that ought to be made by all stake females) for every 1000 males. Several cases of domestic holders.Through this platform, it will be our endeavour to violence, especially in rural areas are going unreported. convert our FOGSI innovations into implementation. As a While in cities, including shanty towns, domestic violence society we have already spent adequate time on the need is 40 per cent the same in rural areas is as high as 56 per for upholding the rights and dignity of women. What we cent. According to NCRB data, 244,270 cases of crime now need is action that can deliver results. We hope that reported against women were reported in 2012. While Naari Samman is the first stepping stone towards 38,262 cases related to kidnapping and abduction of achieving a fair and equitable society, which is devoid of women / girls; 45,351 cases were related to assault on any bias against womenwomen with intent to outrage her modesty. A whopping

106,527 cases were on cruelty by husband or his relatives while there were 8,233 cases relating to dowry death.

According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), in India, a child goes missing every eight minutes. Almost 40% of them are never found and incidentally a majority of them are girls. Similarly, violence against women continues to remain high. A survey conducted by Trust Law reveals

Naari Samman 2013

Dr Hema Divakar

President FOGSI (2013)

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

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1st National Conference on “Saving the Girl Child” on 7th & (3) Dr Narendra Malhotra, Past President, FOGSI8th Dec 2013 at Kalyani was organized by Kalyani (4) Dr Narenra Saini, Secretary, IMA (Hq.)Obstetrics and Gynaecological Society in association with (5) Prof R Venkata Rao, Vice-Chancellor, National Law ICOG, FOGSI and IMA; under the leadership of Dr Dilip School of India University, BangaloreKumar Dutta, Organizing Secretary, Dr Manidip Pal, (6) Prof Amit Banerjee, Vice-Chancellor, West Bengal Organizing Chairperson. University of Health Sciences, Kolkata

(7) Prof Hiralal Konar, Chairperson, ICOGThe theme of the conference was –(8) Prof Krishnendu Gupta, President, BOGS

(1) Save the girl in mother's womb (9) Prof Dipankar Bhattacharyya, Principal, College of (2) Safeguard the girl child from unnatural death Medicine & JNM Hospital, Kalyani(3) Stop abusing girls as commodity (10) Prof Gita Ganguly Mukherjee, Kolkata(4) Shield the girl child from violence (11) Prof Sudip Chakravarty, Kolkata(5) Secure good health

There was a pre-congress workshop on PPH on 7th Dec (6) Self-esteemconducted by Prof Christopher B-Lynch, attended by 250 (7) Solvent before marriageparticipants. Inauguration on 7th Dec evening was

The conference was attended by about 1100 delegates attended by 600 delegates from all school, college, from all the segments of the society viz. doctors, engineering student, medical student, law student etc. engineers, nurses, lawyers, students, laborers etc. Life-time achievement was given to Prof B N Chakravarty,

Padmasree Rustom Phiroze Soonawala, Prof Emeritus International Faculty —Christopher B-Lynch. We have felicitated 12 distinguished (1) Prof Emeritus Christopher B-Lynch, UKdoctors includes Dr Narendra Malhotra, Dr Narendra Saini (2) Prof Ashma Rana, Nepal and others. On 8th Dec there was scientific session on

(3) Dr Bandana Sharma, Nepal theme subjects, attended by 500 delegates.(4) Prof Sayeba Akhter, Bangladesh

At a glance whole conference was a grand success!(5) Prof Saria Tasnim, Bangladesh

National Faculty—

(1) Padmasree Rustom Phiroze Soonawala, Mumbai(2) Prof B N Chakravarty, Kolkata

Reported By

Dr Dilip Kumar DuttaDr Manidip Pal

REPORT OF

FIRST NATIONAL CONF ON SAVING GIRL CHILD

judgements in PNDT cases.Dr Sanjay Gupte from Pune REPORT OF THE PRE-CONGRESS WORKSHOP ON enlighten the audience on very important tips on PC PNDT.“PCPNDT MTP : ISSUES & SOLUTIONS” WAS HELD ON

3RD AUGUST AT LAUVENDER BAUG, GHATKOPAR (E). There was unique session held for the first time on F Form exercise, in this session, how to fill form F correctly, was The pre-congress workshop on “PCPNDT MTP: issues & demonstrated. Deficiencies in form F is the major fault in Solutions” was held on 3rd August at lauvenderbaug many PNDT cases. This session was designed and ,Ghatkopar East.This workshop was attended by 103 conducted by Dr Hitesh Bhatt.

delegates.It started at 9.00 am and with the e-lighting of Very interesting penal discussion on PCPNDT and MTP. Dr lamp. Dr GanapatSawant ;Dr AtulGanatra and Dr Hitesh Sanjay Gupte, Dr RajeshreeKatke , Dr Asha Advani, Dr Bhatt were convener for the programme. Dr AtulGanatra and Dr Geetedra Sharma were GanpatSawant gave introduction of the subject followed eminentpanellists and was moderated by Dr Hitesh Bhatt by the session on understanding the MTP and PCPNDT Act and Dr GorakhMandrupakr.

by Dr Prakash Pawar and Dr Nozer Shariar respectively.Alternate solutions for the PCPNDT problems were

In next session the members were allowed to share their discussed by lectures including the role of an association experiences on MTP and PCPNDT problems.Dr Rajan by Dr SuchitraPandit, Newer solutions by Dr KartikBhagat Vaidya, Dr J T Shah, Dr VarshaFadke and Dr Bela Bhatt and PNDT a lateral thought by Dr Hitesh Bhatt. shared their feeling and bitter experiences with all the Dr GanpatSawant gave vote of thanks to all the speakers, members delegates and sponsors Dr Geetedra Sharma, Medicolegal consultant from This workshop was video recorded to preserve as a Amdavad gave very interesting lecture on diverse module for many such program in future.

REPORT FROM GHATKOPAR

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ACTIVITIES OF 2013 BY FOGSI SOCIETIES

MUMBAI SOCIETY

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ACTIVITIES OF 2013 BY FOGSI SOCIETIES

COCHIN SOCIETY

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ACTIVITIES OF 2013 BY FOGSI SOCIETIES

CAR RALLY IN INDIRAPURAM FOR CERVICAL CANCER AWARENESSOrganized by Rotary Club of Indirapuram Pariwar (RCIP)

Under aegis of GOGS (Ghaziabad Obs & Gynae Society) on Sunday 15th Dec' 2013, 9 am -11.00 amEndorsed by Delhi Gynaecologist Forum

WALK FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH

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ACTIVITIES OF 2013 BY FOGSI SOCIETIES

DEOLI SAWANGI SOCIETY

JABALPUR SOCIETY

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GET YOUR COPY : JOIN SMRITI

www.smritiindia.org

Facebook page: www.facebook.com/smritiofficial

ADOPT A SMRITI GIRLRs. 20/- per day for one year will see one girls senior school education call Ph. No. +91 9027795353 for details.

Your contributions are exempted under 80G of I.T.

Appeal to all of you

We thanks our donors this year

Ms. Jaya Pancholi USA

Ms. Ushi & Mr. Markus Switzerland

and 100 others who have adopted

a girl for education for just Rs. 20/-

per day

Printed and Published by : Dinkar Textographics

For Private circulation for FOGSI and SMRITI

FOGSI-Smriti Award –

Save the Girl Child 2013

Winner :

1st Runner up :

2nd Runner up :

Deoli-Sawangi Obstetric & Gynaecological

Society

Cochin Obstetric & Gynaecological

Society

Mumbai Obstetric & Gynaecological

Society

Ms Jaya Pancholy (USA) Rs. 1 Lac

M/s Mahindra Co. Rs. 1 Lac

Smt Ramkali Devi Foundation Trust Rs. 1 Lac

Geissman family in memory of Phillipe Rs. 2 Lacs

M/s. Gayatri Builders Rs. 1 Lac

Contact for detailsJaideep Malhotra [email protected]

Amit Agarwal [email protected] Smriti Membership contact

Prabandhan [email protected]

For contributions to Smriti Magazine contact

Neharika [email protected]

FOGSI – SMRITI 2014 CALENDER

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