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Reuters
Reuters
Health
By Mukelwa Hlatshwayo

Clitoris reconstruction offers hope to Kenyan women after childhood mutilation

Nurses support gynaecological surgeon Dr. Marci Bowers as she performs a clitoral restorative surgery on a woman who previously underwent female genital mutilation (FGM), at a clinic in Nairobi, Kenya, November 17, 2022. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi

Imagine having no sensation in a body part for most of your life and then being able to feel it at last.

That was the transformation being sought by about 60 Kenyan women who had undergone female genital mutilation, or FGM, during childhood and came forward for reconstructive surgery of the clitoris during a recent humanitarian operation in Nairobi.

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