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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.
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
|title=Botched circumcisions send four boys to hospital in Kuopio
|url=http://www.cirp.org/news/helsinkinews08-21-01/
}}</ref>
The [https://stm.fi/en/ministry Ministry of Social Affairs and Health] and the Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities sent a letter to Finnish university hospitals in 2003 to urge them to perform non-medical circumcisions, however some doctors have refused to perform the operation, saying that it violates the [[physical integrity ]] of the child.<ref>{{REFnews
|title=Finnish hospitals urged to perform circumcisions
|url=http://www.cirp.org/news/helsinginsanomat03-24-03/
}}</ref>
A Muslim mother had been charged with assault after she had her four-year-old son [[circumcised]]. The trial court ruled that the circumcision of the boy was illegal.<ref>{{REFnews
|title=Court rules circumcision of four-year-old boy illegal
|url=http://www.cirp.org/news/helsinginsanomat2006-08-07/
}}</ref>
The [https://www.greens.fi/Finnish Green League] voted in 2012 to seek the phase-out of non-medical male [[circumcision ]] of boys by law.<ref>{{REFnews
|title=NEWS ANALYSIS: Finland lacks policy on religiously-mandated male circumcision
|url=http://www.circumstitions.com/news/news45.html#finland-nolaw2