The state government sent us the childbirth related report for the year 2012. I took out figures for three civic and one state run hospitals in the city. All are tertiary level hospitals, and people form each institute believe theirs in the leader of them all. The following graphs show their delivery rates and sex ratios at birth.
I have smudged the names of the institutes so as to maintain their privacy, though I understand it is a public document and is available on the net for anyone who wants to see it.
The state run hospital has all the resources of the state at its disposal, and has famous doctors on its staff. Perhaps the delivery rate there would have been 4 to 5 times what it is. A civic hospital has even poorer delivery rate, though its head of the department of obstetrics and gynecology keeps telling us how busy they all are, how they deliver 20-30 patients a day, and the civic body needs to give them more assistant professors, unless I give them my assistant professors. Well there are people who make statements without checking statistics, or make up statistics to match their statements :-)
It is dismal that the sex ration of them all is poor, none reaching 100 or exceeding it, and one as low as 66%. When I informed my people about ours, one of them said "Sir, now the area surrounding our hospital has been transformed from one time mill land and chawls into posh towers and affluent people are living there. That may the reason of such low sex ratio."
"But the people who deliver in our institute are all poor" I said. "This sex ratio is of our hospital births, not our geographic area." That ended the argument. That all happened long ago, but I am left wondering about it. It implies that even poor people do prenatal sex determination and female fetecide. Our institute has no hand in it, as is evident from the facts that we our MTP rate is very low, and we just deliver all women who come to our hospital. All I can do is educate people and pray that the government somehow controls the prenatal sex determination.
The state run hospital has all the resources of the state at its disposal, and has famous doctors on its staff. Perhaps the delivery rate there would have been 4 to 5 times what it is. A civic hospital has even poorer delivery rate, though its head of the department of obstetrics and gynecology keeps telling us how busy they all are, how they deliver 20-30 patients a day, and the civic body needs to give them more assistant professors, unless I give them my assistant professors. Well there are people who make statements without checking statistics, or make up statistics to match their statements :-)
It is dismal that the sex ration of them all is poor, none reaching 100 or exceeding it, and one as low as 66%. When I informed my people about ours, one of them said "Sir, now the area surrounding our hospital has been transformed from one time mill land and chawls into posh towers and affluent people are living there. That may the reason of such low sex ratio."
"But the people who deliver in our institute are all poor" I said. "This sex ratio is of our hospital births, not our geographic area." That ended the argument. That all happened long ago, but I am left wondering about it. It implies that even poor people do prenatal sex determination and female fetecide. Our institute has no hand in it, as is evident from the facts that we our MTP rate is very low, and we just deliver all women who come to our hospital. All I can do is educate people and pray that the government somehow controls the prenatal sex determination.
