Just IN: More than 100 #FGM Victims In #Liverpool Seen By #NHS Services Last Year🤦🏾
#uk: More than 100 victims of female genital mutilation were seen by NHS services in Liverpool in the year to March, new figures show.
NHS Digital figures show around 130 FGM #survivors in the NHS
Liverpool CCG area were seen by health professionals in the year to March – up from roughly 90 the year before.
Of these, approximately 100 were having their injuries reported for the first time.
Only approximate numbers are recorded in the #data to prevent the identification of
individual women.
Across England, roughly 6,380 #women who attended GP practices or other health services were identified as having undergone FGM in 2021-22 – and around 2,735 were newly-identified individuals.
In the UK, FGM has been banned since 1985.
#uk #BorisJohnson #Johnson
Also, hundreds of victims of female genital mutilation were seen by NHS services in #Manchester in the year to March, new figures show.
NHS Digital figures show around 245 FGM survivors in the NHS Manchester CCG area were seen by health professionals in the year to March – down
from roughly 330 the year before.
Of these, approximately 110 were having their injuries reported for the first time.
Only approximate numbers are recorded in the data to prevent the identification of individual #women.
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