Birth of a baby girl and social stigma

doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7455.1563

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Afshan Salim, paediatrician

Hull

While working as a junior resident in India, I was posted to the neonatology ward of a hospital serving a rural area, where most of the babies born belonged to families from the surrounding countryside.

I soon realised that the birth of a baby girl was regarded as a calamity by the family, particularly by …