by Michael Hynds | Aug 3, 2021 | Fistula patients, Kivulini, News, Story
Amina is from Shinyanga in northern Tanzania and is 44 years old. She developed a fistula 22 years ago, caused by prolonged labour and because of a physical deformity that she suffered during a fall. Amina lives in a village where it is very difficult to arrange...
by Michael Hynds | Jun 25, 2021 | Fistula patients, Kivulini, News, Story
Monica, 30, delivered her first baby around five years ago by caesarean section. Three years later, at 40 weeks of her pregnancy, she started labour. However, she could not each a hospital because of transport problems. She remained in labour for more than two days....
by Michael Hynds | Jun 11, 2021 | Fistula patients, Kivulini, News, Staff, Story
Meet Elizabeth (pictured seated outside her home), from Tanzania’s rural Dodoma Region. She is 45 years old and has two children. Her older child is 19, and her younger one is 14. After delivering her second child, Elizabeth discovered that she could not control...
by Michael Hynds | Mar 16, 2021 | Fistula patients, Kivulini, News, Staff, Story
Maternity Africa’s 2021 season of outreach trips and training programme for fistula patient ambassadors is underway in Dodoma Region in the heart of Tanzania. Social Worker Grace and Fistula Nurse Etropia have spent the past couple of days educating the next...
by Michael Hynds | Dec 3, 2020 | Fistula patients, Kivulini, News, Story
Jenny was born 48 years ago and has three children. She was diagnosed with obstetric fistula after delivering her third child in 2015. She underwent several surgeries elsewhere for her fistula, but was not healed. Because of her condition, Jenny’s husband divorced...
by Michael Hynds | Nov 26, 2020 | Fistula patients, Kivulini, News, Story
This is Rehema. She is 37 years old. She got an obstetric fistula in 2018. She subsequently discovered that she was pregnant. At our recent camp, Dr Andrew operated on Rehema, and she was healed. Rehema was married, but she divorced her husband because he was violent...
