Thursday 14 March 2019

New victims of female genital mutilation seen by NHS services in Northamptonshire

New victims of female genital mutilation seen by NHS services in Northamptonshire New victims of female genital mutilation in Northamptonshire were seen by NHS services last year.

The figures show the ongoing scale of the challenge to fight FGM across the UK, where thousands of new cases were recorded, shortly after the first person to be convicted was jailed.

NHS Digital figures show that victims of FGM – where female genitals are cut, injured or changed for no medical reason – in Northamptonshire were seen by NHS Services on at least 50 appointments in 2018. Daventry Express

No comments:

Post a Comment