Pakistan Issues Health Care ID’s For Trans People To Improve Care
Pakistan has started to issue special health ID’s for trans people and is also working on setting up separate wards in hospitals for trans patients “as a way to lessen health care discrimination,” reports ‘Daily Inter Lake’.
Members of the trans community have often been denied treatment in hospitals around the country because doctors “could not decide whether to treat them in a male or female ward, and have even died for lack of care.”
Pakistan officially recognised transgender as a third gender in 2012.
According to the ‘Daily Inter Lake’ “the Supreme Court ordered the government to list transgender as a third gender on ID cards, and the national agency responsible for issuing them will also handle the new health cards.”
Dr. Zafar Mirza, a special aid to Crime Minister Imran Khan for health services said that “the health ministry will immediately start giving health cards to all transgender people who are registered.”
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