Mutilación genital femenina

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Female genital mutilation is a practice still carried out in thirty African countries and some in Mi Orient in order to garantee virginity and chastity before the marriage/matrimony and later fidelity. This procedure involves the apparition of several complications in woman, above all those related/focused on the genitourinary system, and makes much tougher the delivery process. But the most importnat thing to point out is that with the resettlement from these countries into occidental ones, Spain among them, the number of mutilated woman who go into our Health Centres and that require special care, both physician an psychosocial, issteadly increasing. Therefore, we must know this process thoroughly to get care to be adequate.