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First of its kind: A clinic just for transgenders
Bosco Dominique, TNN 29 August 2009, 03:43am IST
PUDUCHERRY: Transgenders, often distanced by society, will soon have a clinic functioning exclusively for them in this former French enclave.
Even as a group of transgenders in Chennai launched a matrimonial website exclusively for them, in Puducherry the Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute showcased a clinic, which, they claimed was the first such medical facility for transgenders in south India.
The clinic boasting of providing complete health care services for transgenders will offer consultation and treatment free of cost in the disciplines of gynaecology, urology, dermatology, psychiatry and paediatrics. "The transgender clinic will function thrice a week from 9am to 3pm," said Prof D R Gunasekaran, V-C of the Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth University to which the Mahatma Gandhi Medical College is affiliated.
The clinic screened first batch of 20 transgenders for various disorders on inaugural day on August 24.
"Transgenders are vulnerable to a host of ailments including HIV, skin complications and failure of various organs. We have roped in specialists from all disciplines to extend health care services to them," said Prof Gunasekaran.
The university has joined hands with an NGO, Sahodaran, to work on projects targeting males having sex with males, HIV+ and transgenders. The university has plan-ned to approach government and NGOs to enlighten transgenders on their new facility. "As a deemed university we aspire to engage in several innovative fields of specialization and to establish a greater interface with society. We decided to open an exclusive clinic for transgenders realising that they are most oppressed lot and are denied basic health care facilities," he said.
First of its kind: A clinic just for transgenders
Bosco Dominique, TNN 29 August 2009, 03:43am IST
PUDUCHERRY: Transgenders, often distanced by society, will soon have a clinic functioning exclusively for them in this former French enclave.
Even as a group of transgenders in Chennai launched a matrimonial website exclusively for them, in Puducherry the Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute showcased a clinic, which, they claimed was the first such medical facility for transgenders in south India.
The clinic boasting of providing complete health care services for transgenders will offer consultation and treatment free of cost in the disciplines of gynaecology, urology, dermatology, psychiatry and paediatrics. "The transgender clinic will function thrice a week from 9am to 3pm," said Prof D R Gunasekaran, V-C of the Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth University to which the Mahatma Gandhi Medical College is affiliated.
The clinic screened first batch of 20 transgenders for various disorders on inaugural day on August 24.
"Transgenders are vulnerable to a host of ailments including HIV, skin complications and failure of various organs. We have roped in specialists from all disciplines to extend health care services to them," said Prof Gunasekaran.
The university has joined hands with an NGO, Sahodaran, to work on projects targeting males having sex with males, HIV+ and transgenders. The university has plan-ned to approach government and NGOs to enlighten transgenders on their new facility. "As a deemed university we aspire to engage in several innovative fields of specialization and to establish a greater interface with society. We decided to open an exclusive clinic for transgenders realising that they are most oppressed lot and are denied basic health care facilities," he said.
