2015-09-16 Daily Monitor (Uganda) - Baby loses penis during circumcision

Cite as: Basiime & Atuhaire (2015)  Baby loses penis during circumcision Daily Monitor 16 September 2015 Full-text available at http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Baby-loses-penis-during-circumcision/-/688334/2871830/-/9w2t1t/-/index.html Accessed: 28 October 2015. Archived by Bodily Autonomy Watch at http://bodilyautonomywatch.blogspot.com/2015/09/2015-09-16-daily-monitor-uganda-baby.html
 
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Kabarole. A six-months-old baby in Fort Portal has lost his penis during circumcision, a procedure his mother claims she never authorised.
Ms Rosette Katushabe, a resident of Rwengoma village in Fort Portal municipality, says her baby was on September 2 circumcised by a sheikh without her consent.
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Previous cases
In 2013, a 44-year-old lost his penis to a botched male medical circumcision procedure in a private clinic in Kawempe Division, Kampala. The man said the circumcision was free, but he had to pay shs20,000 for the drugs. He said he woke up three hours after the procedure to find his penis stiff and was removed days later at Mulago hospital when it darkened and began peeling off.

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