A West Pokot Medic has castigated people promoting Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the County.
Speaking during a funds drive in support of over 25 vocational and Technical training students at Kapenguria Pentecostal Church, which raised over Ksh 250,000, Thomas Kemer Jarash advised that the practice has adverse effects upon women and girls in many different ways.
He said that the practice, which mainly involves forceful removal and injuring healthy and normal female genital tissue, should be discarded entirely.
Jarash explained that FGM doesn’t have any health benefits and dismissed the notion held by the community that it’s a practice that could eliminate sexual pleasure for every woman who faces it.
The doctor thanked the county government for opening new health facilities and pleaded with the County Government to ensure that all the centres were fully equipped with all the necessary drugs so that they could serve their intended purpose.
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On the hygiene front, he asked all residents to be very cautious about the water they drink. Safe water is that which has been properly treated or properly boiled to avoid disease-causing germs.
The medic asked parents to cooperate with teachers through competency-based Education, which was in step with Vision 2030, whose sole aim was to equip learners with skills for the 21st Century. He added that the system hinges on the global shift towards education, which would encourage optimal human capital progression.
Jarash asked the government to beef up security in restive areas of the county because all the doctors were completely uncomfortable with the turbulent areas.
“At my youthful stage, I unknowingly found an abandoned packaged suspicious object, I held it in my hands and pulled a certain pin facing the opposite direction, a terrific explosion followed, just to learn later that it was indeed a grenade,” he narrates.
“My solemn appeal to the youth and anyone else is that they have to report to the relevant authorities in case they come across such objects,” he beseeched.
By Hillary Muhalya
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