Nigeria, Feb. 26 -- Plan International Nigeria, an independent humanitarian non-profit organisation, has condemned the growing trend of medicalised Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), where healthcare professionals perform the procedure under the "guise of safety."

The organisation warned that this practice undermines efforts to end FGM by 2030 and called for stricter legal measures against medical practitioners involved.

In a statement to commemorate the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM this February, the organisation described medicalised FGM as a violation of medical ethics and human rights.

It urged the Nigerian government to explicitly prohibit the practice in national health policies and strengthen enforcement of existing...