[Medico-legal issues of the practice of ritual circumcision by nurses in Tunisia]

Abstract

Circumcision is the most performed surgical procedure in the world. This removal of the foreskin answers most often to an obligatory ritual practice in the Jewish and Muslim religions. In Tunisia, this act, formerly practiced by customary circumcisers, is mainly performed by nurses. In case of complications, the responsibility of the latter remains unclear, in the absence of regulations specific to this ancestral practice, with the exception of two ministerial circulars.

Keywords: Tunisia; Tunisie; circoncision rituelle; complication; nursing staff; personnel infirmier; responsabilité; responsibility; ritual circumcision.