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FGM: ‘20m Children, Women Suffer Psycho Traumatic Stress Disorder’
No fewer than 20 million children and women are victims of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the country.
A Gender Desk Officer at the Ekiti State Ministry of Health, Mrs Oluwakemi Akinleye, gave the revelation in Ado Ekiti, yesterday, during a Stop Cut Project capacity building for Media Practitioners in Ekiti State.
Akinleye during her presentation said, “A national survey carried out in 2018 and still operational reveals that about 19.9 million children and women have been victims of female genital cut. This number to us is alarming.