This debilitating childbirth injury, often resulting from prolonged and obstructed labour, leaves women in excruciating pain ...

For five years now, Terrewode Women’s Community Hospital in Soroti district has been at the helm of offering specialized ...

Uganda has made giant strides in ending Obstetric Fistula with now 1,500 new cases annually, as compared to 3,000 new cases ...

Each year, no fewer than 50,000-100,000 women sustain an obstetric fistula in the act of birthing new life.The condition, according to the United Nations Population Fund, is the most devastating of ...

Fistula prevention involves strategies to educate communities about the cultural, social, and physiologic factors that increase the risk for fistula. On the basis of physiologic immaturity ...

Obstructed labour can happen to any woman, regardless of geographical location. However, it is only in the developing world ...

Married at the tender age of 13 and diagnosed with vaginal fistula when she was 16 years old, Seema’s existence has since become synonymous with agony. Every villager, out of pity for her ...

The assistant commissioner of clinical services in the ministry of health, Dr Alex Wasomoka, has raised concern over the increasing backlog of fistula cases in Uganda.He told a media breakfast meeting ...

How a team of nurses from the UK and Uganda introduced a training package to care for women undergoing obstetric fistula surgery Obstetric fistula is a condition with severe personal and social ...

The ministry of women affairs has inaugurated a vesico vaginal fistula (VVF) treatment centre at the Gwarimpa General ...

[File, Standard] Every year, Webuye County Hospital in Bungoma County reports a backlog of 10,000 fistula cases. Dr Simon Kisaka, the facility’s Medical Superintendent attributed obstetric ...