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‘Culture not lost’ with clinic circumcision
LIZEKA TANDWA
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ITH over 2 314 illegal initiations and 40 deaths recorded by the health department last year in initiations across the province, the Circumcision Clinic at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University says their service is becoming the preferred way for Xhosa boys to journey into manhood. NMMU circumcision clinics nurse, Mziwoxolo Mbangi, said since the inception of the clinic in 2012, there has been a huge demand
difficult getting through to the Xhosa boys as tradition is still vital in their culture. “They feel that we are trying to oust their culture. But it is not about that; it is about fighting the HIV/ AIDS epidemic,” he added. In a closed briefing with his office last year, MEC for Health in the Eastern Cape, Sicelo Gqobana, said they had deployed task teams to deal with the scourge of deaths due to the practice. Gqobana said in June 2013, 12 169 legal initiations were carried out in that month while 2 314 illegal initiations occurred. There were 359 hospital admissions arising out of the initiations. A total of 24 cases led to amputations, 40 deaths occurred but only 19 arrests were made as a re-
for their service. Mbangi said they expected this year alone to receive over 50 students as patients, explaining that because of their limited facilities they could not offer their health care to as many as they would like. “We expect more than 50 students. We don’t want to do a lot of students at once because we want to give quality service to each student. We try to do one campaign each semester which makes it twice a year. In future we will try and do more than that because of the demand from the students,” he added. Despite the safer health care given to student initiates at the clinic, Mbangi said it had been
sult. “The statistics for illegal initiates, admissions and deaths were highest in the districts of OR Tambo and Alfred Nzo. The major causes of injuries and deaths identified include beating of initiates, dehydration, infections and mutilation during the initiation process,” he said. Mbangi advises those who wished to be initiated traditionally to get proper health education. “They can come to us for just general checkups, to see if they are in good health to go for circumcision, and we are willing to offer them an HIV test too,” he said. For more information on the dates of the NMMU circumcisions contact 041 504 4370.
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