27/10/2018
Somali Medical Pioneer Continues Battle to Stop FGM
When she was a young girl, Edna Adan Ismail?s mother and grandmother circumcised her in a traditional ceremony while her father, a doctor, was away. That evening, he returned home, enraged at what had happened. ?What have you done?? he asked Ismail?s mother and grandmother. Cutting the young girl, he said, was ?haraam? ? a sin. She was only seven or eight, but Ismail knew what had happened was wrong. The event, and her father?s reaction, would have a lasting impact. Medical trailblazer Years later, Ismail followed in her father?s footsteps, pursuing a career in medicine. She studied abroad and became a pioneer in health care in Somaliland, an autonomous region of Somalia. #160; In 1965,...
