Varanasi: A doctor in Varanasi has ensured that the birth of a girl child brings smiles to everyone's face. Whenever a girl child is born in her nursing home, Dr Shipra Dhar distributes sweets and does not charge for the delivery, whether it is normal birth or caesarian.
Dr Shipra suffered patriarchal discrimination as a child and as such decided that she will bring a change in society. She inaugurated a nursing home in the Ashok Vihar colony of the city after she completed her MD from Banaras Hindu University in the year 2,000. The doctor said that when she used to see disappointed parents of a newly born girl child outside the delivery room, she decided to celebrate such births in an attempt to change the thinking of the parents.
Her husband Dr Manoj Shrivastava also contributed a lot to fulfilling her resolution. As a result, in this campaign that started in 2014, more than five hundred daughters were born in their nursing home and the doctor couple did not charge any fees from the parents. Apart from the unique initiative, Dr Shipra also teaches girls in her nursing home with more than 50 students getting free primary education.
