Hospital closure ordered after 17-year-old girl dies of circumcision-related complications
>Cairo: A 17-year-old girl died of complications after undergoing circumcision surgery in Egypt’s coastal city of Suez, marking the country’s first reported death from female genital mutilation (FGM) since 2013, health officials and media said on Monday.
>The victim, identified as Mayar Mohammad, suffered from severe bleeding and a drop in blood circulation after she was subjected to the illegal procedure in a private hospital in Suez, they added.
>Health authorities in the city, around 120km from Cairo, ordered the hospital closed, the semi-official newspaper Al Ahram reported.
>The hospital’s officials and a doctor suspected of having carried out the operation are facing investigations in connection with the girl’s death, according to the paper.
>Egypt’s governmental National Council for Women condemned the unlawful surgery.
>“Performers of such criminal operations must face strict measures,” the council said in a statement.
>Several members of parliament, meanwhile, presented queries over the incident that violated a 2007 ban on FGM in Egypt.
>Some friends of the victim blamed her mother for subjecting the teenager to the procedure.
>“Mayar died due to ignorance and backwardness of her mother, who regarded her daughter as guilty only because she was created a female,” Rawan Al Jamal, a classmate of the victim, mourned her in a Facebook post.
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