As Edinah Nyasuguta Omwenga fought for her life after developing complications during childbirth, she overheard doctors in the Kenyan hospital describe her condition as a textbook example of the damaging even deadly effects of genital mutilation.
As Edinah Nyasuguta Omwenga fought for her life after developing complications during childbirth, she overheard doctors in the Kenyan hospital describe her condition as a textbook example of the damaging even deadly effects of genital mutilation.But unlike thousands of girls across East Africa, Omwenga underwent female genital mutilation (FGM) in a hospital, at the hands of a health worker part of a worrying trend keeping the illegal practice alive.
"I went through the cut, but I wouldn t want my children to go through the same. There was a seminar I attended, and we were taught about the complications those who went through the cut get when giving birth, I have experienced the same while going to the hospital to give birth." FGM survivor