The doctor’s watchdog is holding almost four disciplinary hearings a year into horribly botched circumcision operations on boys.
Complaints include penises being left deformed, babies requiring emergency blood transfusions, and unsterile equipment leading to infections.
All forms of ritual genital cutting on girls is illegal in the UK, but religious and cultural circumcision on boys is permitted, including by non-doctors, and largely occurs among Jewish, Muslim and some African Christian communities, where they are often considered a religious obligation.
