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The rally was jointly organised by the Junagadh Civil Hospital and the Trainee Nursing Association of India. It started from the Vivekananda High School and culminated at the Civil Hospital.
At the end of the rally, a public meeting was held. Addressing the large gathering, Junagadh District Collector Ashwini Kumar, said, “The nursing profession has enough potential and opportunity to spread the message of saving the girl child very effectively and that too simultaneously with the patient's treatment.” Kumar said if nurses adopt this initiative as a challenge, they could give proper guidance and understanding to thousands of women to save the girl child. This will be a great service to society as well, she said.
Civil Surgeon Dr D R Makawana, while pointing out the mission, said, “Any type of imbalance in society proves fatal for the health of our society and the nation as well, particularly imbalance between male-female ratio.” He said ignoring or sidelining women is certainly not a sign of any civilised society.
Junagadh Civil Hospital administrator Sangita Tikyani said, “The power of creation lies only with the God and a mother,” adding that women were mostly responsible for the killing of the female foetus. “In eighty percent cases, women's negative role and approach is responsible for the killing of the female foetus,” she said.
I A Kadiwala, president of Trainee Nursing Association of India, asked the nursing students to participate actively in social awareness programmes aimed at saving the girl child. Former health minister Hemabahen Acharya, Junagadh MLA Mahendra Mashru, district women association's president Mahasweta Vaidhya and other speakers stressed on the need to change the mindset of people towards girl, saying that law alone could not do much to curb the practice of killing female foetuses. “The entire society's active role is desperately needed in this mission towards saving the girl child,” they said.


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