Political and legal factors
Legal and political issues were found to be related to
children's pain. A fifth of Nigerian women who had
undergone female genital mutilation wanted their
daughters to undergo the same procedure. However, more
than half of them did not know that circumcision is illegal
in Nigeria. It is obvious that agencies working on female
genital mutilation reach only a small percentage of people
for whom circumcision is a traditional practice (Dare et
al., 2004.)
Nurses and physicians working with children having
cancer criticised legal and political system of health care
in Morocco, where access to pain medication is limited
by government restriction, complex policies and cost
factors. They thought that Moroccon law should be
liberalized so that medications, such as morphine can be
more available. Therefore, greater awareness among
decision-makers, such as hospital directors and the
ministry of health staff was needed (McCarthy et al.,
2004.)