Philippines - hundreds of boys in a Philippine town Manila, proved Saturday for a day "party of the circumcision" to provide a safe, free procedure for a rite of passage which undergo more local males as pre-teens.
Some boys were crying in the arms of their mother, while some other bits of their shirts to suppress tears as doctors performed surgery on dozens of fortune of exploitation of the tables in a stage of sport in the city of Marikina is Manila. Other boys lined up to wait their turn outside.
"I am now a big boy," a boy who had completed surgery has boasted.
Officials have said the event - touted the merits in a press release as a "party of circumcision" - aims to promote safe circumcision and give poor people free surgery cost be contrary at least $40 in private hospitals.
In mid-afternoon, nearly 1500 boys aged 9 years and up had been circumcised, while many were still waiting online, Dr. Alberto Herrera city health officer, said.
In the Philippines, pre-teen and adolescent boys are traditionally circumcised during the summer from March to may school. In rural areas, surgery is sometimes performed by non-physicians using rudimentary methods.
The city also hopes to establish a world record for the number of persons participating in a mass circumcision.
"We applied for the Guinness of Records book of the world and we are all registration so that we can send all the data for them and I hope that this will be recognized," Vice Mayor Jose Fabian Cadiz said.
Marikina, the country's shoemaking capital, has been recognized by the Guinness in 2002 for the creation of what was then the largest pair of shoes world.
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