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Restoring Her Dignity: A Health Systems Approach to the Management of Female Genital Fistula
Maternal mortality and morbidity has remained high in sub-Saharan Africa mainly due to poor access to quality reproductive health services, poverty and low education levels, lack of equity, poor road and communication infrastructure and grossly inadequate health services. Female Genital Fistula is one of the most devastating of all pregnancy-related disabilities and mainly affects poor women in under-resourced regions. Fistula mostly occurs as a result of prolonged obstructed labour coupled with lack of skilled medical care, and usually leads to permanent incontinence - a continuous leakage
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Dignity Restored
Rose* She watches us from the safety of the thin blanket she's wrapped in. She is coiled in a foetal position. Her eyes are blank. One can see straight through to the back of her head. Her dark motionless face watches us dis-interestingly. "Rose*! Rose!" the nurse calls her. Only her eyes shift towards the sound of the voice. She then adjusts her position by coiling tighter into her warm blanket. "Can she talk?" I ask the nurse. "She only responds to her name. Nothing more." I look at her surroundings. A folded wheelchair has been placed next to her bed. A half dr
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