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FGM 'done in hospitals' negating efforts made

School girls campaigning against FGM in Kacheliba. [File, Standard]

Kisii County has beautiful cultures and diversity, but even with urbanisation, civilisation high literacy levels, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is still deeply rooted among some members of the local community.

The county has the third-highest rate of FGM among the 22 leading counties, with medicalisation only complicating efforts to eradicate the practice whose prevalence stands at 84 per cent.

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