The Civil Guard has arrested three people, including the parents of a baby who died last Sunday in Roquetas de Mar (Almería) after practicing clandestine at the family home, and will pass on Tuesday available to the Court of Instruction number 6 of sea roquetas, according to sources of the case. The Almeria command, this Monday morning, reported that the baby’s parents were arrested, whose age has not transcended, as well as the man who made circumcision, which did not have medical training.
The sources have indicated that the investigation is still underway and that this Monday afternoon a record related to the case was carried out. The Almeria newspaper He advances Tuesday that the baby’s family is originally from Mali and that the child suffered “a serious bleeding as a result of this surgery” and reports that despite the fact that the parents transferred him to a health center to see the loss of blood, the toilets could not do anything to save the life of the child.
In which the portion of the pendant of the penis that covers the glans is cut so that it is permanently exposed and, although in general it is associated with different cultures and religions, it is also a sanitary practice that is done for medical issues, such as phimosis.
Several studies in recent years also point to various benefits such as reducing the risk of urinary tract infections in children, protection against penile cancer or the prevention of the inflammation of the glans (balanitis) and the foreskin (postitis). And “medical masculine circumcision reduces about 60% the risk of sexual transmission of women’s HIV to men, especially in environments with generalized epidemic of HIV infection.”
It clarifies, however, that “it only provides partial protection and, therefore, must only be an element of a comprehensive prevention package” and that “does not involve risks” as long as they make it “health professionals with adequate training, in properly equipped environments.” It is also not the same in children than in adults, since for the former, especially those who are not yet able to control urine, such as babies, general anesthesia is needed.
