(ANSA) There are approximately 200 million in the world and 80 thousand in Italy, including 7 thousand minors, women who have undergone genital mutilation, the Higher Health Institute (ISS) said in a report Tuesday.
The majority of Italian health workers, 60%, however, consider their training on the subject inadequate, and fall into errors and clichés, such as the one according to which the practice is carried out for religious reasons, when in fact it is not prescribed by any faith, said the report filed by the ISS and the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome campus, in view of the world day against female genital mutilation (FGM) which falls on February 6.
