Calls for reconstructive surgery for FGM survivors to be made available on NHS
https://news.sky.com/story/why-women-are-being-forced-to-go-abroad-to-help-heal-from-a-lifetime-of-trauma-13471703
Posted by topotaul
Calls for reconstructive surgery for FGM survivors to be made available on NHS
https://news.sky.com/story/why-women-are-being-forced-to-go-abroad-to-help-heal-from-a-lifetime-of-trauma-13471703
Posted by topotaul
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I can’t see this being used often given just *one* person has actually be prosecuted for FGM despite it being a specific criminal offence since 2003, over 20 years now.
Seems like money very well spent if it can be addressed in some fashion.
The details in that article chilled me to the bone.
Absolutely monstrous practise.
I’m supprised and disappointed that this wasnt already available.
I was born and bred in England and am one in a long line of English nationals.
I have paid taxes in this country my entire working life, I have put into the system and I have voted in elections, locally and nationally.
I for one thoroughly and completely support our NHS providing this service and services like this to nationals of the British Isles, expats, immigrants, asylum seekers, refugees and anyone else that needs it.
If my tax money isn’t going towards making the world better for the people in it, then I’ll happily stop paying until they fix it.
why the fuck do we not already make it available, are doctors just leaving girls with hacked up genitalia?
As long as we can send the country where it took place the bill on pain of sanctions/visa ban
Shame the same can’t be done to boys whose parents mutilate them as babies.
Damn right. It breaks me knowing what those poor girls go through. They should be prioritised for mental health care too.
Also I appreciate it’s not the same but I do hope they’ll also do this for circumcised men should anyone wish it.
The last thing the NHS needs now is more demand placed on it for something that isnt life critical. I think responsibility for reconstruction should be with the parents who authorised it in the first place.
And why should taxpayers pay for this?
Let’s be honest, it’s not Shannon from Bristol that’s a victim of FGM because her father forced her to.
Address the issue first.
If you just going to put a plaster over the consequences of the practice, without actually clamping down on said practice, we are just wasting taxpayers money. With that being said, we are pretty good at that in Europe in general.
I’ve dealt with one FGM case in my time as a teacher (and when I say ‘dealt’, I mean suspected, referred and confirmed – I had no direct involvement of the handling of it). It was exactly as the training you get outlines it. To the best of my knowledge, no prosecution happened of the family.
I’d strongly support this. It’s a horrific practice.
This seems entirely reasonable to me. I can’t really see what the objection would be.