Kids to be circumcised must be 'psychologically ready' -- DOH

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MANILA, Philippines -- With a wide variety of organizations and even politicians sponsoring "Operation Tuli" or mass circumcision this summer, the Department of Health (DOH) has advised male teeners or kids to be psychologically ready should they decide to go under the knife.

Dr. Eric Tayag, DOH assistant secretary and spokesperson, said that aside from a rite of passage to manhood that should be done without complications, circumcisions can cause teenage boys to feel extreme pain, bleeding, and swelling of the foreskin, among others.

Likewise, it is important that those performing the circumcision are experts and those being circumcised are cooperating and psychologically ready, having to feel the pain and at times being the center of jokes (especially those to be circumcised in later age).

Meanwhile, traditional pukpok is not at all bad especially if conducted by one who has done it many times before, although Tayag would rather have kids go for the modern ways of circumcision.

Tayag said that circumcision is actually done even among male infants (even if babies also feel pain) or even adults as old as 40 years old. 

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