{"id":1186,"date":"2017-02-08T12:43:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T12:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2017-02-08T12:43:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T12:43:10","slug":"fgm-victims-need-medical-attention-every-hour-says-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/fgm-victims-need-medical-attention-every-hour-says-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"FGM victims need medical attention &#8216;every hour&#8217; says charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A case of female genital mutilation (FGM) is either discovered or treated at a medical appointment in England every hour, a charity has said.<\/p>\n<p>Plan International UK said statistics showed there were 8,656 times when a girl or woman was assessed at a doctor&#8217;s surgery or hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Charity boss Tanya Barron said: &#8220;These figures are once again a reminder of the global prevalence of FGM.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 200 million women and girls worldwide are affected.<\/p>\n<p>The NHS figures analysed were between April 2015 and March 2016. They show a patient was assessed on average every 61 minutes. Among those who attended, a case of FGM is newly recorded every 92 minutes on average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A case of female genital mutilation (FGM) is either discovered or treated at a medical appointment in England every hour, a charity has said. Plan International UK said statistics showed there were 8,656 times when a girl or woman was assessed at a doctor&#8217;s surgery or hospital. Charity boss Tanya Barron said: &#8220;These figures are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fgm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}