HOSPITAL DENIES MAN'S CLAIM
However, hospital authorities denied the man's claim that he was deceptively operated on.
According to Chief Medical Superintendent Kirti Goswami, the man had been coming to the hospital regularly for two months to meet Dr Raza Farooqui, a plastic surgeon. Goswami said that the man identified as a woman and wanted to undergo sex reassignment surgery.
The Chief Medical Superintendent said that Dr Farooqui referred the man to two psychiatrists to assess his mental condition, which is a prerequisite before a sex-change operation as per law. The man was operated on only after the two psychiatrists deemed him mentally fit.
"The man came here to get admitted on June 4 and his operation was conducted on June 6. All these procedures are legal and were conducted under the supervision of Dr Farooqui," said Goswami.
Goswami also claimed that the authorities had a video of the man before his operation, in which he could be seen talking about undergoing an operation to change his gender.