Baby has penis amputated after ‘botched circumcision by nurse pretending to be doctor’

Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2019-07-18 17:27

Article here. Excerpt:

'Ashraf Helmi claims he originally took his one-month-old son Mohamed to hospital in northern Cairo, Egypt, for vaccinations.

But while there, the father says he was persuaded by his sister-in-law and a family friend to have his son circumcised.

He told local media that he agreed to let a doctor at the Manti Medical Centre in Shubra El-Kheima perform the operation.

Mr Helmi alleges that it was only afterwards that he discovered the medical professional was in fact a nurse.

Speaking to a local news broadcaster, he said: "She did it at an emergency room and not an operation room.

"I made sure I was there because you hear of all the botched surgeries out there.

"After finishing, she then fastened the gauze so tightly and when I told her it's very rough for a small boy, she said, 'I know what I'm doing!'"'

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While individual tragedies are worth highlighting, the real issue here is in those few words the father speaks "....you hear of all the botched surgeries out there."

Sadly, the foolish man was nevertheless persuaded to risk his healthy son in a totally unnecessary operation that was always going to do more harm than it stood a chance of doing any good at all.

Western nations have an even bigger problem. Operations intended to merely damage a boy's sexual organs are too often botched in our own supposedly developed country. Yet we do not hear of it. We do not even hear about it when a child dies as a result, which is nowhere near as rare as the uninformed might think.

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Submitted by Douglas on Fri, 2019-07-19 08:57