In India, according to Economic Survey Report 2017 - 18 , more than 63 millions girls were killed in the last 10 years, beside this the Lancet Medical Journal 2018 says that gender bias killed 2.40 million girls in the 0-5 age group in the previous decade, and all these deaths were "avoidable, but parents were simply not interested in saving them as they were girls". "A big challenge for a few gynecologists in India is to tell families about girl childbirth. The Indian doctor fighting to change attitudes towards girl child.
Pune-based Dr. Ganesh Rakh's unique 'Save Girl Child' initiative that involves over 200,000 private doctors, 12000 NGOs and 2 million volunteers from India and other foreign countries are contributing their efforts for saving the girl child. Today this movement is a big success on an international level but Interestingly, when he first launched the campaign in his Medicare Hospital, Pune, on January 3, 2012, with a determination "to deliver female child absolutely free of cost", he was considered as a 'Mad Doctor' by society.
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