Prognosis of Newborns of Parturient Who Have Suffered Female Genital Mutilation/Excision (FGM) in the Obstetrics Department of University Hospital Center (UHC) POINT G. BAMAKO/Mali

Aim:To study the prognosis of newborns in parturients who have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM).Patients and Method: Our study took place in the obstetrics department U.H.C Point G.It was a case / control study.The case being the excised woman and the witness, the non-excised woman.Our study lasted sixteen months, from 01/01/2019 to 04/30/2020.Were included, primiparas from 14 to 49 years old excised or not.The sample size was calculated based on the case / control sample.Data collection was done on individual questionnaires.The analysis and data processing were done on SPSS 12.0 and Word 2013.Statistical tests: Khi2.P < 0.05.Results: during our study we included 266 women.The major age group was 14-19, or 51.1% in the cases and controls.The bambaras and sonrhaïs were the majority ethnic groups in the two cases with respectively 34.6% and 31.1% with P < 0.00.The illiterate and the secondary level were the majority in the cases and the controls respectively with 57.8% and 59.3% with P < 0.00.Type 3 circumcision accounted for 12%.In our study we had 43.75% of infibulates delivered vaginally we found a relationship with P <0.05; 17.3% of the newborns of the cases had a bad Apgar against 0% in the controls and 02.3% of neonatal mortality in the excised women; Absence of neonatal mortality in women not excised. Conclusion:FGM was a frequent practice in our countries and can be a source of neonatal and obstetrical complications.Measures must be taken to prevent and eradicate this scourge.