Rome – “The San Gallicano Dermatological Institute has always been attentive to the health problems of foreign women, particularly in Africa where it promoted various activities and the emergence of several hospitals to deal with this phenomenon”. So the IFO General Director, Francesco Ripa di Meana, on the occasion of World Day Against Genital Mutilation. “The commitment of the San Gallicano was always in the direction of the physical and psychic integrity of these children – said Aldo Morrone during the seminar held today at the Sala Tevere of the Lazio region – through a network of scientific agreements with leading universities of the State of Tigray in Ethiopia. For over 25 years there are doctors and health workers of our Institute in rural remote areas as Sheraro, and Makallè, where they carry out training activities for health workers”. (9colonne)