{{Women who fell victim to bush knives in the name of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) can now exhale as a pioneer clitoris restoration surgery clinic has opened its doors in Africa.}}<\/p>\n
The only problem is that Kenyans wishing to access the rare corrective service may have to fly across the continent.<\/p>\n
Clitoraid, the special surgery in Bobo Dilassou, Burkina Faso, is a first that will attract many whose \u2018pleasure pins\u2019 were brutally nipped to satisfy retrogressive cultural practices. <\/p>\n
The clitoral repair hospital will open on March 7, and Chantal Compaore, First Lady of Burkina Faso, will preside the ceremony.<\/p>\n
Dr Marci Bowers, MD, and Dr Harold Henning Jr, MD, volunteer surgeons from the United States, will perform surgeries at the new hospital and also train other surgeons to do it.<\/p>\n
Kenya is renowned for successful complicated surgeries, but not this service in a country where the Kuria, Masai and Kisii communities practice FGM.<\/p>\n
{{After the surgery}}<\/p>\n
But in an exclusive interview with The Nairobian, Clitoraid Communications Director Nadine Gary said \u201cThere are many patients who have contacted us from Kenya, indeed. One Kenyan patient is coming to our \u2018Pleasure Hospital\u2019 for her surgery in March. <\/p>\n
Also, a Kenyan doctor, who we will name at a later date is planning on coming to be trained during our hospital inauguration. All of our patients have reported improvements after the surgery, and about 60 percent of them have experienced orgasm \u2013 something they thought would never happen for them,\u201d said Gary.<\/p>\n
Gary said hundreds of women are already on Clitoraid\u2019s waiting list to have the surgery, which will be free for any woman who wants it.<\/p>\n
She says Clitoraid picked Burkina Faso because it is a relative stable country politically and they have the support of the government with the First Lady, Chantal Compaore and the local community as well with local African chiefs having donated the land upon which the $400,000 (Sh34 million) hospital is built.<\/p>\n
{{ Physical pleasure}}<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir wait is almost over,\u201d Gary said. She said the new facility, called \u201cthe Kamkaso,\u201d which means \u201cthe house for women,\u201d has been nicknamed \u201cthe Pleasure Hospital,\u201d since the surgery \u201cwill restore their dignity as women as well as their ability to experience physical pleasure, which was taken from them against their will.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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