The media circulated a few days ago the decision to refer the public prosecutor in Egypt, the father of three girls and a doctor, to an urgent criminal trial, after the father deceived his daughters and subjected them to circumcision under the influence of the drug.

The father had deluded his daughters by vaccinating them against the Coronavirus, and the doctor who brought the father to the house injected them with anesthesia, and when they woke up and found their legs bound, and they felt pain in their genitals, they told their divorced mother who informed the competent authorities of the incident.

And "the practice of female circumcision" - meaning it is carried out by medical personnel - is the most common in Egypt, as 80% of the Egyptian women who underwent circumcision performed.

Statistics show that these ratios are the main change in the process of circumcision, because by comparing mothers with girls we will find that 37.9% of mothers underwent circumcision by medical professionals, compared to 81.9% of girls, according to UNICEF.

Treating circumcision

Despite the efforts of human rights organizations around the world to criminalize female circumcision and reveal its psychological and physical impact on girls, 200 million girls and women alive underwent female genital mutilation in 30 countries, and 68 million girls are still at risk by 2030, according to the United Nations.

In 2020 alone, more than 4 million girls worldwide are subject to genital mutilation.

In the year 2018, Egypt ranked fourth in the world and the third in the Arab world in performing female circumcision with a percentage of 91%, according to UNICEF reports, where the country of Somalia ranked first in the world and the Arab countries with 98%, followed by the list in Guinea, then Djibouti, then Egypt and then Sudan in eighth Globally and the fourth Arab by 88%.

Egypt ranks first in the world in the phenomenon of "the practice of circumcision" with 82% of the total cases of circumcision, according to the National Population Council.

Some believe that medicalization is one of the forms of mitigation of harm, while violators see that this is being promoted with a view to evading the "crime" of circumcision under the name "plastic surgery", especially since there is no medical term for this process and is not taught in medical schools, According to the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood.

Medication victims

The continuous rise in the rates of "circumcision medicine" confirms that legal prosecution is not enough. In the year 2016, the Egyptian parliament amended the law on "genital mutilation" to include doctors and parents who commit this practice, with prison terms of up to 7 years for those who circumcised a female without medical justification, and the severity of the prison sentence increased if it led to permanent disability, or if the act led to death .

Last January, Nada Hussein, 12, lost her life after being circumcised in a clinic in Asyut Governorate, southern Egypt.

Before that, a number of girls lost their lives as a result of the circumcision operations, including the 12-year-old girl, Badour Shaker, from Minya Governorate in southern Egypt. She breathed on the eve of her success in the primary stage in 2007, while undergoing a circumcision by a doctor.

It was the role of the stone that stagnated the stagnant. At that time, the Minister of Health, Dr. Hatem al-Jabali, issued Resolution No. 271 of 2007, including a statement criminalizing prejudice to the female reproductive system, and a ban on doctors, nursing staff and others from making any cut, adjustment, or adjustment of any natural part of the device The female reproductive system, whether this is done in governmental or non-governmental hospitals or in other places.

In 2008, the Penal Code was amended and the People's Assembly passed legislation to criminalize female circumcision. But in 2013, the 13-year-old Suhair Al-Batea, 13, died after a surgery by a doctor in the Aga Center, Dakahlia Governorate, in the Delta of Egypt.

Three years after Suheir's death, Mayar Moussa, a girl, died in Suez after a circumcision in a hospital there.

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Corona and increased circumcision

Due to legal restrictions, secrecy surrounds the process of female genital mutilation, and the spread of the "Covid-19" epidemic and subsequent closure measures has created a climate for this practice.

Closures and stopping efforts to combat female genital mutilation have made UNFPA project that there will be 2 million FGMs over the next decade, which may not be avoided as a result of the disturbances caused by the Coronavirus.

Somalia, where 98% of women have undergone FGM, witnessed a significant increase in cases of "female genital mutilation" due to the closure. According to the Guardian, there has been an increase in requests from parents for midwives and nurses to perform female circumcision for their daughters whose schools were closed because of the epidemic.

In Kenya, where girls' rescue shelters were closed, there has also been an increase in circumcision.

According to "Reuters", Kenya will not be able to achieve its goal by ending cases of "female genital mutilation" in 2022, as it witnesses a current relapse due to the Corona virus.

Girls do not go to school and parents face an uncertain future because of the loss of income caused by the epidemic, so they resort to circumcision of their daughters to marry them, especially since some Kenyan societies see female circumcision as a necessity for social acceptance and increased prospects for marriage.