AIIMS Delhi To Soon Setup Centre Dedicated to Transgender Healthcare

Ankita Garkoti Senior Content Writer

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The AIIMS Centre of Excellence for Transgender Healthcare aspires to not only deliver holistic care but also become the place of learning about transgender health.

AIIMS Delhi planning to open a Centre dedicated to transgender healthcare soon

New Delhi: AIIMS Delhi with National Aids Control Organization and Health Ministry is planning to establish a center dedicated to provide comprehensive and holistic care to transgender individuals. This center is expected to be set up in the next 4-5 months.

Maneesh Singhal, Head of the Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery at AIIMS Delhi informed that the ‘Centre of Excellence for Transgender Healthcare’ will be located at the burns and plastic surgery block at AIIMS with the help of Health Ministry.

He said, "The thought of establishing a dedicated centre for them comes with understanding the difficulties encountered by the transgender community in accessing healthcare services with the general public and their hesitation in seeking help due to stigma and societal biases”.

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Maneesh Singhal shared that the center aspires to not only deliver holistic care but also become the place of learning about transgender health. "The plan is to establish a centre where surgeries can be conducted according to their needs, and endocrinology and psychiatry services can be provided under one roof," he added.

"However, despite the synergistic proactive action by the ministries of health and social justice, the paucity of trained care providers and training centres in India remains a major hurdle in the delivery of standardised, affordable, accessible, and holistic healthcare to transgender persons and gender-diverse individuals," he said.

In addition to this, AIIMS is organising an Advanced Gender Affirmative Care Workshop on the theme of “Addressing felt-need for training and capacity building of care providers” in collaboration with the Association for Transgender Health in India (ATHI) and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).

This workshop is an important step towards providing healthcare professionals with advanced skills to adapt to the unique needs of transgender and gender-diverse patients. It covers the advanced strategies and practices to improve the mental well-being of the transgender community.

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