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Following the death of a baby in Manchester after a home circumcision a mother has called for mobile circumcision services to be banned.
The trial of nurse Grace Adeleye who carried out the circumcision on Goodluck Caubergs heard that up to three children a month are admitted to the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital because of bleeding after home-based circumcisions.
Adeleye was found guilty of the manslaughter of Goodluck by gross negligence by a jury at Manchester Crown Court on 14 December.
Manchester-based solicitors JMW are currently investigating a separate case of a family from West Sussex who claim their son was left in "excruciating pain" after a home circumcision.
The doctor involved in the case said the redness and swelling her son experienced was a normal part of the healing process.
The mother said she had arranged for her son to be circumcised at home because she did not live near to a clinic that offered the procedure.
Trusted the doctor
Explaining why she wanted her son circumcised, she said: "I foun"I found a mobile circumcision doctor on our local mosque's website.
"My husband is Muslim and proud to be Muslim and our children are Muslim too.
"We put our trust in the doctor, going to a clinic would have involved a lot of travelling but it was because he is a doctor that swung it."
She said the doctor visited their home in September when her son was aged 22 months.
Circumcision in the UK
Most circumcisions in the UK are done for non-therapeutic reasons (religious). The operation is usually done under local anaesthetic or without anaesthetic soon after birth
Medical circumcision is more commonly done on older children and adults
The Scottish government has agreed that religious circumcision can be carried out under general anaesthesia by trained paediatric surgeons at one of four paediatric centres under the NHS
Currently no formal qualifications are required to perform the operation
Jewish boys are circumcised when they are eight-days-old by a Mohel - a Jewish person trained in the practice of brit milah, the covenant of circumcision. Mohel's are often, but not always, qualified doctors. Most Muslim boys and some Christians are also circumcised as babies. There is no equivalent of a Jewish Mohel in Islam or Christianity with procedures usually carried out by doctors
Religious circumcision is largely unregulated in the UK - but medical professionals who have botched private operations have faced sanctions from the GMC
Some medical experts have called for religious circumcision to be offered on the NHS to minimise the risk of post-operative complications
What is male circumcision and why is it performed?
Male circumcision: The ultimate parenting dilemma
Is religious circumcision of babies ethical?
About five days after the circumcision she said the swelling on her son's penis started increasing and he was in "excruciating pain".
She said she took him to her GP who prescribed antibiotics for an infection.The mother said she contacted the doctor who performed the circumcision who said she should wait three weeks for the skin to heal.
Her doctor said: "In my leaflet and at the time I went to do the circumcision I did explain redness and swelling is normal in healing, that it will go away in two weeks but it can happen."
He said he did not think there were any complications arising from the procedure.
The mother said she took her son to a paediatric urologist who she said told her not enough skin had been removed and her son would require surgery to remove some skin and a granuloma which had formed to prevent deformity as he grew up.
"I've been left with a child who refuses to have his nappy changed, who screams if you go to touch it [his penis] and he needs surgery to fix it," she said.
She said she would like mobile circumcisions to bbe made illegal and better signposting from GPs to private clinics for parents who want the procedure.
But her doctor said a clinic is no more sterile than a home environment.
He said: "It's not illegal or unethical to do it at home.
"I use a one-use pack of sterile instruments. An operating theatre has special ventilation to make it sterile but a clinic doesn't."
Melissa Gardner, a specialist medical negligence solicitor at JMW, said: "Given the impact on their child, the family has significant concerns about the way the procedure was conducted.
"While it is too soon to know what the long-term effects will be, this case highlights the need for extreme care when performing circumcisions."
The mother said she has also referred her case to the General Medical Council.