by Michael Hynds | Jan 22, 2020 | Fistula patients, Kivulini, News
Many people do not fully understand what obstetric fistula is, and how embarrassing or debilitating it can be for many women, sometimes causing them to be ostracized from their families and communities. The excellent television series, Call the Midwife, recently...
by Michael Hynds | Jan 15, 2020 | Fistula patients, Kivulini, News
Leah is 21 years old. She is one of six siblings, and has a twin. She was adopted by a lady that had no children of her own. However, Leah’s adoptive mother subsequently had a baby, and then she hated Leah. Leah suffered greatly. She managed to...
by Michael Hynds | Dec 23, 2019 | Fistula patients, Kivulini, News, Story
Last week, Maternity Africa was delighted to welcome eight girls from The Girls Foundation of Tanzania and Bishop Henry Gogarty Memorial Girls Secondary School in Kilala, Usa River. The girls asked if they could come to learn about obstetric fistula – its...
by Ester Blass | Nov 5, 2019 | Fistula patients, Kivulini, News
Last week at Kivulini Maternity Centre, we hosted our last fistula camp of 2019. Following an intensive outreach programme that covered 1,914 kilometers, our outreach team identified 31 ladies suffering from debilitating obstetric fistula and other birth-induced...
by Ester Blass | Sep 19, 2019 | Fistula patients, Kivulini, News, Staff, Story
My name is Joy. I am 18 years old. I married at 16 and got pregnant at 17. I went into labour, which lasted for four days without any kind of help. There is no health centre in our remote village so my mother called for a local midwife to come. She said there was no...
by Ester Blass | Sep 12, 2019 | Fistula patients, Story
After leaving Kivulini Maternity Centre where he treated many ladies for obstetric fistula, Dr Andrew Browning flew to South Sudan. There, he operated on 30 women with birth-related injuries including obstetric fistula. One of the ladies is called Pudol. She is from...
