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The status of non-therapeutic circumcision in Canada has been poorly reported. This page is an attempt to correct that situation.
History
on-therapeutic circumcision of children is offensive to many Canadian minorities. The French-speaking people of Quebec and elsewhere generally do not favor circumcision. Male circumcision is not part of the culture of Inuit, First Nations, and Métis populations (4.3% of the population).
Patel (1966) reported his findings on neonatal circumcision in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Patel reported on the complications experienced in a series of 100 consecutive male infants. He also reported on the incidence of circumcision at Kingston General Hospital in Kingston, Ontario. Patel reported an incidence of circumcision of 48 percent. This is for one hospital in Kingston, ON but has been widely cited as the rate for all Canada.[1]
Canada, like other English-speaking nations formerly circumcised most of its boys, with circumcision rates in the sixty-seventy percent range in the 1960s.[2]
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Position statements of medical societies.
The Canadian Paediatric Society took a position against non-therapeutic circumcision of boys in 1975, declaring it to have "no medical indication" and to be an "obsolete operation".[3]
Canada has fourteen single-payer health insurance plans — one for each of the ten provinces and three territories and a 14th plan for government employees. The British Columbia HIP stopped paying for non-therapeutic circumcision in the 1980s. One by one, all other HIPs have stopped paying for non-therapeutic circumcision. Third-party payment for non-therapeutic circumcision is not presently available anywhere in Canada.
References
- ↑
Patel, Hawa. The problem of routine infant circumcision. Can Med Assoc J. 1066; 95: 576-81. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
- ↑ Wirth, John L.. Current circumcision practices: Canada. Pediatrics. 1980; 66(5): 705-8. PMID. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
- ↑ Swyer, PR, Boston, RW, Murdock, A, Paré, C, Rees, E, Segal, S, Sinclair, JC. FN 75 Circumcision in the newborn period. CPS News Bull Suppl. 1975; 8(2): 1-2. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
