Circumcision may be offered on cultural basis

CIRCUMCISION services could be available on non-essential, non-medical grounds in children’s hospitals around the country by next year under a new plan being considered by the Department of Health and the country’s major health boards.

The need for such a service was highlighted in August following the death in Waterford of a newborn baby boy. Callis Osaghae was taken to Waterford Regional Hospital when he began bleeding heavily after a botched circumcision.

He died the same day.