Dr Ganesh Rakh has delivered 436 baby girls free of charge. The son of a coolie and housemaid, he wanted to be a wrestler as a child, but his mother encouraged him to study hard and get a proper job.
The doctor wants to change the mindset of a 'boy-obsessed' society.
In 2007, he started the Medicare hospital. For the last four years he have not charged a fee when a girl child is born in this hospital. They have delivered 436 girl children through this scheme.
When a new-born girl child needs intensive care, they provide that too without charge. When a girl child is born they distribute cakes and sweets to all the patients in the hospital.
For things to change, society must learn to celebrate the girl child. They must realise that a girl child is as good as a boy child. They must not differentiate.
The government is running many campaigns to save the girl child, but its focus is on government hospitals. Female foeticide happens in private hospitals. Private hospitals must be encouraged to join the save the girl child campaign. Every little bit helps.
Source - RediffNews
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