Dr Chris Agboghoroma, Chief Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, National Hospital, Abuja on Thursday described Female Genital Mutilation as a disaster.
Agboghoroma told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that any mutilated child suffered psychological trauma.
“FGM is a major disaster that we must avoid,” the consultant said.
He said FGM also known as female circumcision or female genital cutting “is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all external female genitalia.’’
The consultant described such practice as an abuse, assault and injustice to women apart from the psychological trauma on them.
Agboghoroma, the immediate past Secretary General of the Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics of Nigeria, identified some of the instruments used as unsterilised blades, scissors and knife.
“The practice of using knife, razor blade, scissors among others to cut the…
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