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One-month-old baby amputated after botched circumcision

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A one-month-old baby had to have his penis amputated after a nurse allegedly pretending to be a doctor carried out a botched circumcision.

Ashraf Helmi had gone with his sister-in-law to have his son vaccinated at a medical centre in northern Cairo, Egypt.

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