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n In a ruling issued in 1999 the Deputy Parliamentary Ombudsman Riitta-Leena Paunio said that Finnish public health institutions are not obliged to perform male circumcisions for non-medical reasons.
Add human rights section.
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==Human rights==
Finland became the 23rd member State of the Council of Europe on 5 May 1989.
==History==
Four boys in Finland were hospitalized after being circumcised by a visiting Muslim doctor. One of the boys had gangrene in his penis, but it apparently was successfully treated in hospital. An African-born doctor visiting Kuopio last week performed the operation on seven Muslim boys. The youngest was just three months old, and the oldest were about ten.<ref>{{REFnews