Letting the Girl Child Live: Paras Hospitals, Gurgaon celebrates Children’s Day

Letting the Girl Child Live: Paras Hospitals, Gurgaon celebrates Children’s Day differently! Talks about ‘SHE’- the Girl Child!

• Through Painting and Declamation competition, Paras Hospitals organized a platform for the children to speak their mind on what they feel about the inhuman practice of female foeticide and infanticide.
• Children from schools across Gurgaon come together to celebrate Children’s Day and exhort their parents’ generation to junk the abhorrent practice

Gurgaon: Can we call ourselves a civilized society as long as the despicable practice of killing the female foetus remains rampant amidst us? Can we celebrate Children’s Day without turning our thoughts to the millions of girl children who have been killed in their mother’s womb? These questions were at the heart of a two-day programme organized by Paras Hospitals, Gurgaon to invite children into a movement for change.

Children from schools across Gurgaon came together to celebrate this Children’s Day differently – by devoting their time and energies to express their thoughts about the illegal yet common practice of sex selection in our society.
It is to be noted that Haryana is among the Indian states which have the worst women to men sex ratios in India. In fact, in the 2011 Census, Haryana had the ignominy of having the lowest child sex ratio among all states with just 834 girls for each 1,000 boys in the age group of 0-6 year.

​​‘SHE’ is an initiative of Paras Hospitals, Gurgaon that aims to create awareness against the evil of female foeticide by engaging schools and touching the lives of the next generation so that they know what is right and what is wrong. Paras Hospitals campaign- SHE aimed at involving the generation next – the school children- to discuss and have an opinion against female infanticide and foeticide.

On Wednesday (Nov 12), a painting competition was organized at various school premises where participating children were asked to draw their hearts out, expressing the theme of ‘Save the Girl Child’. Children came out with remarkable expressions of brush to express their disgust at the inhuman practice followed by their parents’ generation. The painting contest was followed by a Declamation Competition on Nov 13, where children were encouraged to speak about ‘What Can I do to Stop female Infanticide’.


“Female infanticide is a social issue and cannot be dealt with legal instruments alone. We have to work as a community at different levels to get rid of this abhorrent practice that has been responsible for a silent genocide of our unborn girls. This evil can be rooted out only when we as a people junk the preference for the male child and start believing that foeticide is as wrong as murder,” says Dr Kousar Ali Shah, Zonal Director , Paras Hospitals, Gurgaon, who headed the initiative.

​​The declamation & painting competition was judged by prominent social workers who work at the grass root level for woman empowerment. Ms Poornima Savargaonkar, a former ISRO scientist was invited who at present is associated with NGO – Uthaan. Ms Poornima is associated with the rural women of the area and has taken up numerous initiatives for women empowerment; Ms Deepa Antil, President SNP-Sashakt Nari Parishad, Gurgaon; and Dr Rakhee Gogoi, HOD, Radiology at Paras Hospitals, Gurgaon also acted as judges to decide the winners of the competitions.

“We believe it is imperative for children to be involved in such a campaign as they are our next generation. It is they who will decide the future course that our society takes on this issue and it will help if they grow up believing that killing the girl child is a horrendous practice. As a community health provider, it is our duty to do whatever we can to engage the community in productive and pertinent discussions. This is why we believe that celebrating Children’s Day by highlighting one of the most significant issues facing our children is the right thing to do,” says Dr Rakhee Gogoi, HOD Radiology, Paras Hospitals, Gurgaon

She also added that , “ We as healthcare providers and doctors have a major role to play. Female infanticide may be carried out due to society pressure and miscreant behaviors, however a doctor- sonologist – plays a very important role. The government has over the years has developed strong practices against sex determination, however a gap still exists. We as professionals also have a social responsibility and hence we should all stand against this social evil. It is we after all who decide the change and this change is for the better. “

At the twin competitions held at Paras Hospitals, Gurgaon, children took to different expressions to convey their thoughts about this pertinent question. Most of them went back believing strongly that an evil is rampant in their society, and they need to do their part in abolishing it.


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Cardiology team at Paras Hospitals, Gurgaon adopts trans-radial approach of angioplasty to save more lives

Gurgaon: Multi-specialty Paras Hospitals, Gurgaon today announced the achievement of a major milestone in the journey of its cardiology unit, declaring that its entire team of cardiologists is now equipped and well versed in the life-saving trans-radial approach to angioplasty in acute heart attack (primary angioplasty).

This rare achievement puts Paras Hospitals, Gurgaon, among the very few institutions that can boast of such a capacity. Trans-radial approach of primary angioplasty through the wrist is relatively safer and more cost effective than the traditional method of approaching the heart through the femoral artery in the groin.

Dr Tapan Ghose, Director & HOD Interventional Cardiology at Paras Hospitals, Gurgaon says that his team has adopted the revolutionary approach as it cuts chances of complications and saves more lives.

Angiography is a minimally invasive procedure conducted to diagnose the closed arteries. Angioplasty is the procedure to unclog blocked or narrowed arteries in a person’s heart. Small tubes are inserted through the wrist to the heart arteries. After dilatation with tiny balloons, stents are inserted through arteries into the body to open up the obstructed artery, which resume the blood flow. Wrist approach angioplasty, also called the trans-radial approach allows a cardiologist access to a patient's heart through the artery in the wrist unlike the more traditional groin (femoral) approach which requires a catheter to be inserted into the heart via the artery (femoral) in a patient's groin.

“Wrist approach angioplasty has less bleeding, this makes it a better emergency procedure. If a person has had a heart attack and needs immediate emergency intervention to unclog his arteries, this approach is much better than the traditional approach. It saves more lives too.

For patients it is more comfortable and lets them get on their feet rather quickly. It reduces chances of access site bleeding or hematoma formation. Our analysis (Direct Pilot Study) is that it has lower complication rates than the traditional groin incision approach,” says Dr Ghose.

Dr Ghose has been performing angioplasties through the trans radial approach for several years. Now, his entire team of cardiologists at the hospital has equipped itself in this capability.
90% of our PTCA’s (Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty) are done through the tranradial route. The same requires patient selection and aspects to be considered, says Dr Tapan Ghose. We ensure that all detailed protocols of patient selection and procedure are followed in our cath lab.

In Europe, Canada, Japan and China, a large number of cardiologists today are preferring PTCA through radial artery access. However, in other countries, including India, angioplasty through wrist is still not very common. In India, approximately 30% per cent of the total angioplasty procedures are done through the wrist.


Lack of trained professionals in this approach is perhaps one of the reasons.

“There are relatively lesser number of interventional cardiologists trained in the radial approach. It is a difficult approach which needs skill and training. Majority of the training institutes do not have a structured training programme in this approach of angioplasty, which is the need of the hour,” says Dr Ghose.

With the hospital adopting the trans-radial approach, the cardiologists will now be able to offer better chances of survival and quicker recovery to patients.

The European Society of Cardiology has also endorsed the use of trans-radial approach for angioplasty in its recent guidelines of primary angioplasty.

“The society endorses this approach in the institutions where skilled interventional cardiologists in tranradial route are available,” said Dr Ghose.


Recently researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Washington Medical Center, and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine conducted a cost benefit analysis to conclude that the radial artery approach resulted in less vascular complications and significant cost-savings as against the femoral artery catheter access. In acute heart attack angioplasty through the wrist saves more lives as compared to the groin route.



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