A fact-finding team from National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has found that the report published by a newspaper on genitoplasty was absolutely wrong as the team found no evidence to prove genitoplasty surgery was performed on normal newborn children in Indore.
The team was sent by NCPCR to check the veracity and allegations of the news report published by Hindustan Times on June 26, 2011, saying newborn girls were being converted to boys at the behest of parents wishing for a male child.
The NCPCR team, which included a senior pediatric surgeon and an expert of anatomy and genetics from AIIMS and a medico legal expert from Mumbai, visited six hospitals of the city and collected 82 affidavits of doctors, nurses and support staff. The team also grilled the reporter who had filed the controversial report.
According to them not only the reporter failed to provide any corroborative evidence on her report, but even the facts given by her were wrong.
The team which interacted with pediatric surgeons of various Indore hospitals, their associates, staff of operation theatre including technicians, nurses etc also collected at random recent pharmacy records to check purchase and supply of testosterone injections which are used in such surgeries or for hormonal enhancement. The team even went to the extent of getting the details of chromosomal studies ordered by the hospitals named in the news report to co-relate any possibility of any sex-change surgery having been undertaken in Indore.
“The team found none,” the NCPCR said in a statement in New Delhi. The team also met families of two children who went through certain surgeries and found they had incurred expenses of only Rs25,000 and not Rs1.5 lakh as reported.
Meanwhile in Indore, Union government’s counsel Parikshet Sirohi, who is a part of the six member team as legal advisor, told DNA: “Curative treatment is very common in foreign countries. But we have not found a single case of such sex change surgery in Indore.”
