Health Ministry orders hospitals to avoid sex-selective ultrasound

KATHMANDU, June 16: The Ministry of Health and Population has directed the health institutions not to carry out any activities to identify the gender of babies in pregnant women.

Ministry's under-secretary Yekdev Khanal has written to the government, and private and community health institutions to avoid sex-selective ultrasound adding that such an act was punishable and committing this crime lands an individual to three months to one year in jail.