Mumbai: Lalita Salve (29), a police constable from Maharashtra’s Beed district, on Friday underwent the first stage of her sex reassignment surgery (SRS) at the state-run St George’s Hospital here. “The first stage of surgery got over successfully. The second stage operation will be conducted after six months,” Dr Rajat Kapoor said. PTI
WHO prize for VK Paul of NITI Aayog
New Delhi: NITI Aayog member Dr Vinod Kumar Paul on Friday received the Ihsan Dogramaci Family Health Foundation Prize at the ongoing 71st World Health Assembly of the WHO in Geneva. The award was presented for his ‘outstanding service in the field of family health’. Dr Paul, who hails from Punjab’s Hoshiarpur, has been a faculty member at the AIIMS for over three decades. TNS