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| archivedate = 2021-04-27 }}|In Burkina Faso, we did not have proper clinics for these procedures. We didn’t have doctors in white jackets and gloves. '''We didn’t even have anesthesia to numb the pain'''.}}{{Quote|<nowiki>Breakout Session 3: Female Genital Mutilation - The Facts (2017) - youtu.be/nuaZ_QIx-3U?t=31m44s</nowiki> | | archivedate = 2021-04-27 }}|In Burkina Faso, we did not have proper clinics for these procedures. We didn’t have doctors in white jackets and gloves. '''We didn’t even have anesthesia to numb the pain'''.}}{{Quote|<nowiki>Breakout Session 3: Female Genital Mutilation - The Facts (2017) - youtu.be/nuaZ_QIx-3U?t=31m44s</nowiki> | ||
|Remember, '''there were no anesthetics''' because for we you have to walk the walk, you have to dance the dance. It's what makes you a woman. When you feel that pain it shows you that pain is all you know as a woman.}} | |Remember, '''there were no anesthetics''' because for we you have to walk the walk, you have to dance the dance. It's what makes you a woman. When you feel that pain it shows you that pain is all you know as a woman.}}Why are anaesthetics not used? | ||
There are several possible reasons. It may be that mothers and other older females in the family expect their daughters to undergo the same procedure (and suffering) that they did; anaesthetics may be unavailable or too expensive for poor families; the illegality of FGM in many countries may make anaesthetics hard to obtain for 'cutters' - or discourage those who can legitimately obtain and use anaesthetics (such as doctors, midwives and nurses) from practicing FGM. The eschewal of anaesthetics may also be to some extent due to the fact that FGM is not considered as a medical matter and is therefore not treated as such - it may - and therefore not treated as - a medical procedure, but as a technical or religious procedure - this may explain not only why anaesthetics are not used, but also why it is often performed with germ-infested instruments | |||
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iv/ illegality in many countries makes use of anaesthetics difficult, | |||
v/ tradition - cutters prefer not to, parents expect daughters to undergo what they did | |||
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Keep costs down | Keep costs down | ||
technical rather than medical nature of FGM | technical rather than medical nature of FGM | ||
unavailability of anaesthetics | unavailability of anaesthetics | ||
trauma part of the functionality of FGM | trauma part of the functionality of FGM | ||