"Unfortunately, girls are subjected to violence right from the pre-birth phase. Be it the sex-selective abortion, infanticide or battering of a pregnant woman because she may be having a girl child and even when the girl child is growing up, we find events of incest and physical violence against the girl child", says Dr S Shantha Kumari, President, Federation of Obstetricians and Gynecological Societies of India (FOGSI). On National Girl Child Day 2022, Dr S Shantha Kumari explains how violence negatively affects a girl's health- both physical and mental.
