Victims of female g enital mutilation (FGM) could be left bleeding after childbirth because medical staff are now afraid they may be prosecuted if they repair damage in the wrong way, one of the UK’s leading experts in maternal health has warned. [b]Peter Brocklehurst, Professor and director of the Institute for Women's Health at University College London[/b], is quoted in [s]The Guardian[/s] as saying that the recent announcement of the first ever charges against a doctor who is said to have repaired a mutilation on a mother after childbirth had sparked ‘a lot of worry among midwives and obstetricians about what they can and can't do to control haemorrhaging’. Some female g enital mutilation involves sewing up the vagina to leave a small hole and childbirth causes considerable bleeding that requires rapid repair.
[link url=http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/25/fgm-charges-doctor-medical-staff-afraid]Full Report in The Guardian[/link]