This is where they sedate girls and destroy their genitalia. Studies done by Accaf show that medicalisation is rampant in Kisii county. This trend is hampering the war on FGM and lawmakers and anti-FGM activists want the Health ministry and the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists’ Board to revoke the licences of doctors found culpable. This will help reverse the trend and act as a deterrent, they say.

"FGM is not a disease. If a doctor who is under oath works on parts that he/she was not supposed to work on, all he or she is doing is just mutilating someone’s body,” Christine Sadia, the chair of the Kenya Medical Women’s Association, said.
Previously, girls used to be cut at the puberty stage, but since the inception of the prohibition of the FGM Act in 2011, circumcicsers have not only resorted to using doctors to cut girls, but also go ahead and cut infants.

"What is shocking is that for someone to cut children below four years, that is actually a sign that they are harming young girls,” Sadia said.

Head of the family division at the Health ministry Mohammed Sheikh said action will be taken against those found complicit. "Sometimes cultural influence clouds one’s professional judgement, but we must also remind ourselves that our duty is to safeguard the rights of patients and not destroy them,” he said.

Officials from the doctors’ board and the Nursing Council of Kenya said, however, that no health worker has been reported to the two organisations for mutilating girls in hospitals.