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.
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