Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Officials at the Ministry of Health have called for increased public awareness to prevent obstetric fistula — a debilitating condition resulting from prolonged obstructed labor where a mother develops a hole between the genital tract and either the urinary tract or rectum, or both. According …
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In Uganda, about 7,200 maternal deaths occur every year, and for every maternal death, 6 – 15 mothers survive with chronic and debilitating ill health such as obstetric fistula. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Countries around the World will on Friday, May 23rd carry out a campaign to highlight the …
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Zombo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Zombo district authorities have registered 57 cases of obstetric fistula, especially among young mothers below 20 years over the past two years. The leaders blame the obstetric fistula cases on the high rate of teenage pregnancies registered in the past two years resulting from the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health workers conducting repairs on victims of obstetric fistula are concerned by the lack of spouse support for patients, a tendency that frustrates effective case management. Obstetric fistula is a health condition that leaves a hole between the birth canal and the bladder or …
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