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Over 500 female births with male organs in SL

Corrective surgery available now:

Around 500 female infants with male sexual organs are born every year, a Health Ministry spokesman said yesterday.

“These children and their parents face social and psychological problems due to the unclear biological sexual status of the children. A surgery can make them a complete female without any defect,” the spokesman said.

“Two foreign doctors and a Sri Lankan doctor operated on an eight-year-old girl at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital yesterday and changed her into a complete female,” the spokesman said.

Paediatricians were able to watch the surgery over wide screen.

“It is very costly and complicated to perform this surgery at a later stage when the child becomes an adult. Many prefer to live with the defect but lead very problematic lives. Once they grow up, they face numerous social and psychological problems due to their unclear sexual identity. The operation will solve all these problems,” the spokesman said.

“The three doctors also performed an esophageal replacement surgery on a two-year-old.

It has not taken food or drink orally since the last two years because it only had a part of the food passage. The toddler had been fed intravenously. Now the toddler can drink and eat like any other ordinary child. The doctors used a part of its bowels and constructed the food passage.

Lady Ridgway Hospital Director Dr. Ratnasiri Hewage stated that the hospital offers free surgeries for infants and toddlers with similar defects. ”Facilities for surgeries are available at the hospital,” he said. Dr. A. Bianchi from Manchester, Dr. Saoji from India, Dr. S.P. Hennayake, Dr. U. Samarakkody, Dr. Dharma Sri Jayawardene and Dr. Ananda Lamahewage were among the team of specialist doctors who conducted the surgeries.

 

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