Young Indian girls suffering from serious heart disease are being denied medical treatment by parents who prefer to spend money on sons or fear surgery will harm their daughters' marriage prospects, a new study has found.
A survey of 400 children under 12 suffering from congenital heart disease found only 44 per cent of girls were treated for their condition compared with 70 per cent of boys.
Doctors and women's rights campaigners said the figures reflected the same discrimination against girls throughout India, where women often abort pregnancies if they suspect the foetus is female. The sex ratio of girls to boys has declined sharply in India from 933 per thousand in 2001 to 914 in 2011.
In a study for the British Medical Journal, doctors at New Delhi's All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, said they were alarmed at the gender anomalies in treatment they discovered. Full story...
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A survey of 400 children under 12 suffering from congenital heart disease found only 44 per cent of girls were treated for their condition compared with 70 per cent of boys.
Doctors and women's rights campaigners said the figures reflected the same discrimination against girls throughout India, where women often abort pregnancies if they suspect the foetus is female. The sex ratio of girls to boys has declined sharply in India from 933 per thousand in 2001 to 914 in 2011.
In a study for the British Medical Journal, doctors at New Delhi's All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, said they were alarmed at the gender anomalies in treatment they discovered. Full story...
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