Health visitors will ban circumcision of boys

Health Minister Bent Høie is scheduled to present a bill on ritual circumcision of boys before Easter. Country group of nurses advocates a ban.

The Norwegian Medical Association, Nurses, Children, NHA, Resource for men and Medical Faculty, University of Oslo, said in their response that they do not want that circumcision should be a public task. Here it is also desirable to have a law prohibiting the practice of circumcision of boys, writes sykepleien.no.

Director of Land group of nurses, Astrid Grydeland Ersvik, was with the Ombudsman and Chairman of the kids surgeons in the face of Health and Care Services 27 February.

- Here we have an overall child health environment that believes that the government should not cut healthy baby boy. They are not patients, and there is no medical reason to do so, says Grydeland Ersvik to sykepleien.no.

She says that the prohibition of such practices is hardly realistic at this stage.

- We therefore tried to gain acceptance for setting a minimum age limit of 15-16 years before circumcision so happens that the boy himself can decide.

I think it is important that circumcision of boys is done in a proper and safe manner

“If the children are circumcised in hospitals by competent personnel, we will prevent complications,

This is the most realistic way to ensure the little guys against damage.

A ban on something that is so common

...that circumcision is carried out under hospital sterility also would turn the rite into a totally sterile ceremony.

To allow doctors to refuse to perform circumcision are not applicable, says Høie.