Question: Country’s first transgender clinic will be opened soon by the government of which State?
(a) Tamil Nadu
(b) Karnataka
(c) Kerala
(d) Himachal Pradesh
Answer: (c)
Related facts:
- The Kerala government will open special transgender clinics in state government medical colleges. (September 11, 2017)
- This will be the first transgender clinic in the country.
- In addition to the treatment of transgender community in these clinics, their sex-change surgery will also be facilitated.
- State Health and Social Justice Department, in collaboration with the Legal Services Society, will initiate transgenic clinics to provide solutions to various health issues of people belonging to the third gender and provide counseling to them.
- According to the State Health Minister K. K. Shylaja, such a first clinic will be opened soon in the -to-government medical college, Kottayam.
- The state government’s plan is to open transgenic clinics in all government medical colleges.
- Surgery facility will be provided in at least two government medical colleges.
- The Kerala Government has made a budget of Rs 10 crore for the welfare of this community in the last budget.
- For the purpose of empowering transgenders, the Kerala Government’s plan is to open skill development centers in Kochi.
Reference:
https://www.thebetterindia.com/115224/kerala-to-open-indias-first-clinics-exclusively-for-transgenders/
http://www.thehindu.com/society/no-sniggers-no-stares-at-this-clinic/article19284313.ece