![]() Such a scheme, she claims, would “take the debate to the next level”. ![]() ![]() An annual visual examination (“there is no need to touch”) by a female paediatrician or nurse would remove from school-age children the burden of telling a teacher or friend. Hirsi Ali believes the only way to stop FGM is to check at-risk girls. A growing problem, FGM is often carried out on UK-born girls at about the age of five or six, though some are younger and often happens during school holidays on visits to extended family in African countries where the practice is routine - most commonly, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Nigeria, Eritrea and Sudan. Freedom of Information requests revealed that more than 2,100 women had visited hospitals or clinics in London as a result of genital mutilation since 2006, and that more than 700 needed further treatment or surgery. ![]() Last week, the Standard reported that almost 66,000 women and girls living in the UK had suffered some form of genital cutting, often carried out by untrained family members with knives or razor blades, with a further 30,000 thought to be at risk. What is needed is a mechanism to detect FGM, and that is very, very controversial.” “But the issue with FGM cannot be solved by condemning it - everyone knows it is horrifying, a man-made epidemic and happening right under our noses. ![]()
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