PCPNDT Act: what your hospital software must enforce for ultrasound

The PCPNDT Act 1994 exists for one reason: to prevent sex-selective abortion. For hospitals with ultrasound, this means three hard requirements.

First: Form-F must be filled for every ultrasound study. This records the referring doctor, indication, patient demographics, machine details and operator. It is a statutory record, not optional paperwork.

Second: the sex of the foetus must not be determined or disclosed. The system must not have a field for foetal sex. Not "a field that's optional" — no field at all. If the report template has a sex field, the law is violated regardless of whether it's filled.

Third: records must be maintained for 25 years and produced on demand to the Appropriate Authority.

Most radiology software treats PCPNDT as a documentation feature — "we have a Form-F template." That misses the point. The enforcement must be structural: the workflow opens Form-F automatically for every USG study, the report template physically cannot record foetal sex, and the records are retained with the statutory duration.

OneCity's radiology module does this: USG studies trigger Form-F capture as a required step. The report template for obstetric ultrasound has no sex-determination field. Records are retained per the 25-year requirement. This is not a toggle — it's how the workflow is built.