Separate clinic at MGM as boon to transgender people

WARANGAL: With initiatives from members of the Telangana transgender community and district collector B Gopi, the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital has opened a separate clinic for transgender people, the first of its kind in Telangana. Hospital superintendent Dr V Chandrasekhar told Deccan Chronicle that the transgender people required special medical services like Harmon therapy, trans-sensitive pelvic examinations, prostate examinations, STD and HIV tests, diagnosis and treatment along with surgical reassignment procedures like feminizing genitoplasty, masculinising phalloplasty, breast augmentation and reduction, gynaecomastia correction and facial aesthetic procedures. President of the Telangana transgender community, Laila, told Deccan Chronicle that apart from the health care needs of normal people, the transgenders p need special health care like medical transition of using hormones, surgeries and expert care to avoid various health problems that are specific to them. The National Health Authority recently signed a pact with the social justice and empowerment department for providing medical services to the transgender people. Steps are also being taken for providing sex re-assignment surgeries and free medical services to the transgender people under the ‘Jan Arogya Yojana scheme’.