What instruments are used to perform FGM/FGC?
FGM/FGC is carried out with special knives, scissors, scalpels, pieces of glass or razor blades. Anaesthetic and antiseptics are not generally used except when carried out by medical practitioners. In communities where infibulations is practised, the girls’ legs are often bound together to immobilize her for a period of 10 – 14 days, to allow formation of scar tissue.
