Doctor Ganesh Rakh

The hospital organizes a grand celebration every time a mother delivers a girl child at his hospital by cutting cakes and showering petals on the parents.

A doctor from Pune not only waives the fees if a baby girl is born in his hospital but also makes sure the little one gets a rousing welcome.

Pune: Five years ago, Pune gynaecologist Dr Ganesh Rakh took a special initiative in his 5-bed hospital. He launched a scheme that waived off medical bills on the birth of a girl child. Little did he know that this small initiative by him will turn into a national campaign on saving the girl child. “We started on a modest scale on January 3, 201...

The hospital organizes a grand celebration every time a mother delivers a girl child at his hospital by cutting cakes and showering petals on the parents.

A doctor from Pune not only waives the fees if a baby girl is born in his hospital but also makes sure the little one gets a rousing welcome.

Pune: Five years ago, Pune gynaecologist Dr Ganesh Rakh took a special initiative in his 5-bed hospital. He launched a scheme that waived off medical bills on the birth of a girl child. Little did he know that this small initiative by him will turn into a national campaign on saving the girl child. “We started on a modest scale on January 3, 201...