This is a nursing issue/ problem because:
- There are no health benefits for performing FGM, only harm is caused to girls and women who undergo this procedure
- Removal or damaging of healthy and normal female genital tissue will affect the normal/ natural functioning of a girl’s / woman’s body
- Some immediate side effects:
- Severe Pain
- Shock
- Hemorrhage
- Tetanus
- Sepsis
- Urine retention
- Open sores in genital region
- Injury to surrounding genital tissue
- Long-term consequences
- Recurrent bladder and urinary tract infections
- Incontinence
- Painful menstruation
- Painful sexual intercourse
- Cysts
- Infertility
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- Other issues
- Increased risk of childbirth complications and newborn deaths
- Need for further surgeries
- e.g. repeated sewing and surgical re-opening of vaginal opening
- emotional and psychological side effects that these women who undergo genital mutilation may go through in silence.
- misunderstanding and ridicule of these cultures that perform FGM by other nations who look at this practice as immoral and sadistic
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