Osmania General Hospital inaugurates first state-run transgender clinic

Hyderabad: In a step towards providing healthcare facilities to the third gender in Telangana, an exclusive clinic for transgender persons has been launched at the Osmania Hospital to cater to their needs for improved and equal healthcare facilities.

The facility is the second initiative that the government has taken to open a clinic solely to provide medical services to the third-gender community in the state. The first was opened at MGM Hospital in Warangal.

These services include the identification of gender dysphoria and the issuance of Gender Identity Disorder (GID) certificates. According to a media report in TOI, the clinic is reported to be functional once a week every Wednesday. However, it is believed that the clinic may run for more days in a week depending on the demand of the patients.

The clinic was inaugurated by home minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali at Osmania General Hospital on Wednesday. Earlier the Suprindentant of Osmania General Hospital, Nagender told ANI that a proposal for a transgender clinic in Osmania Hospital was in process.

Meanwhile, the clinic will be led by the two first transgender who created history by joining government service in the state as doctors.

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Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that these two transgender doctors, Prachi Rathod and Ruth John Paul who joined the state-run Osmania General Hospital (OGH) as medical officers completed medicine by overcoming challenges in their personal life.

"Transgender patients can use the clinic for routine medical check-ups but also for getting access to specific medical services during gender-affirming surgeries, hormonal therapies and other related procedures," said a doctor at the hospital.

"The clinic will help transgender persons by providing them with a psychiatrist, endocrinologist, general surgeon, plastic surgeon, urologist and gynaecologist services. With everything under one roof, it will make access to all health facilities much easier for them," said Dr Prachi Rathor, a transgender doctor at OGH.

Apart from this, the Minister also inaugurated a pain clinic, a renovated general surgery outpatient ward, and an operation theatre for the surgical gastroenterology department of the hospital on the same day.

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