Parliament's health committee chairperson, Doctor Sibongiseni Dhlomo, is proposing health screening for initiates before they enter the school and if they are not physically fit, that their initiation be postponed.
CAPE TOWN - Parliament's health committee chairperson, Doctor Sibongiseni Dhlomo, said that traditional initiation schools must modernise the way they function to avoid the deaths of initiates.Dhlomo is proposing health screening for initiates before they enter the school and if they are not physically fit, that their initiation be postponed.
Dhlomo also questioned why the custom required initiates to be deprived of water, since many deaths were as a result of dehydration rather than the circumcision procedure itself.
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