The health sector plays an important role in preventing inhumane practices like FGM worldwide and cooperating with the victims, but in many cases the opposite evidence has been revealed.
According to the 2021 estimate, the practice was conducted by health workers with about 10 million girls and women, that is, one out of every four FGMs.
Director of the Department of Sexual and Breeding Health Research of WHO. “Health workers should be the carrier of this harmful practice, not the criminals of this harmful practice, but the carrier of change,” Passkel Elot says.
He emphasized that this situation is “a serious violation of girls’ rights, which creates a serious threat to their health.
The evidence proves that whatever FGM does, it damages the body, but when health workers do it with “treating”, WHO warned that it could make the wound more serious.
The UN Health Organization has issued new guidelines, which have been appealed to physicians, governments and local communities to take drastic action in this regard.
FGM reduced
Who says that the victims of the genitalia of girls and women need high quality treatment care. These include removing or damaging any part of the female genitalia due to germs.
Since 3, the chances of becoming a girl’s genital distortion have been reduced by three times, but this practice continues in 5 countries, which make about 1 million girls risky every year.
From FGM to the complexity of the supply of mental health problems can have many short -term and long -term health problems and sometimes surgical treatment is also needed.
The WHO recently published new guidelines also suggest on how to improve the FGM victims at various life levels.
This practice is possible to finish
Who says that women’s genital distortion (FGM) can be canceled and some countries have been better in this direction.
Due to continuous efforts to prevent FGM, countries like Burkina Faso have recorded a 50 percent reduction in girls between the ages of 15 and 19 in the last three decades.
Similarly, in the case of FGM, Sierra Leone has dropped by 35 percent and Ethiopia has decreased by 30 percent. This success has made it possible for the implementation of the restrictions and showing political will in the display of political will in the effort to resist.
WHO has published a resistance training package for primary health care personnel in 2022 to highlight the risks related to FGM.
At the same time, health workers can be trained to communicate with the community in a sensitive manner keeping in mind the local culture and approach.
On this occasion, a health worker said, “This training now has been able to make women aware of the FGM now and I have been able to explain them about their loss.”