BHOPAL, May 5 -- A CME on 'Medical termination of pregnancy (MTP) & Medicolegal implications' was organized on Saturday at AIIMS Bhopal. On this occasion, Professor (Dr) Ajai Singh, Executive Director of AIIMS Bhopal said that unsafe abortion has become the biggest cause of pregnancy related death today.
Despite the enactment of the MTP Act 1971 and the MTP Amendment Bill 2020, a large number of illegal and unsafe abortions are taking place in India. Therefore, it becomes necessary that not only gynecologists and obstetricians but all people in the medical field including registered medical practitioners, students should have adequate knowledge in this field.
Professor Singh said most of the medicolegal cases relate to issues of consent, ...