“Visiting a medical establishment as a patient often translates to being harassed or humiliated. However, the reality is that transgender persons often face sociological, mental and physical health issues and “there is dearth of data regarding their major health problems”, noted a recently published study titled The Third Gender in a Third World Country: Major Concerns and the AIIMS Initiative. …
“Coming to a medical establishment as a patient often translates into being harassed or humiliated. Both the public and even some medical/support staff, are still unable to accept us as human beings who are in this space for treatment,” says 23-year-old Ruchi, seeking sex reassignment surgeries at India’s first dedicated transgender out-patient department clinic at Dr. RML Hospital on September …
The Centre-run Dr RML Hospital inaugurated India’s first dedicated OPD for the transgender community on the occasion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday on Sunday. At India’s first dedicated OPD for transgenders, they will be provided with an endocrinology facility with hormone analysis and free hormonal treatment, a psychiatry facility with clinical-psychological assessment, and plastic surgery, Dr Shukla said. When …
