Good News on Female Circumcision (Sudan)

FROM: MANAL ABDELHALIM

MUTAWINAT GROUP


DEAR ALL

THE SUDANESE MEDICAL COUNCIL ISSUED A VERY IMPORTANT DECREE TO BAN ALL TYPES OF FGM PRACTICE IN SUDAN.

ACCORDING TO DR. IMAM SIDDIG, THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE COUNCIL, THIS DECREE WAS ISSUED AFTER A BROAD AND WIDE DISCUSSION . HE STATED THAT THE COUNCIL WILL STRONGLY FOLLOW THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS DECREE AND ANY MEDICAL DOCTOR TO VIOLATE THIS DECREE WILL BE HARSHLY PUNISHED AND THIS PUNISHMENT CAN BE SUSPENSION OF THE DOCTOR’S LISENCE.

DR. BALGIS BADRI COMMENT ON THAT BY SAYING THAT THIS PUNISHMENT MUST EXTEND TO ANY MEDICAL PRESONNEL PARTICULARY THE MIDWIVES.