Nimali says she is 20, looks more like 16, but her obstetric history puts her more like at 30. Her first child was born severely disabled and died soon after birth. 6 further pregnancies ensued with only 2 live children. Her husband beat her so badly that she...

Zawadi is a young 19 year old woman who arrived at the Selian hospital with a cord prolapse. This is an emergency, and the baby can soon die. The midwives did very well to get her to theatre in time and the baby came out kicking and screaming – a great joy all round....

Esther was a lovely young lady about 20 years old who had a very bad VVF but been operated on 3 times at another hospital and was then told there was nothing that could be done and she was still wet. She was beside herself with despair and mecifully one of the nurses...

Maria was a patient in the antenatal ward at Selian in May 2013. Then she was a 43 year old woman with no children. She has lost 3 pregnancies and was then 16 weeks pregnant. Due to a massive fibroid there was fear that she would lose that baby too. But when she then...

Pendo has spent a number of months with us in the ward at Selian, recovering from her neurosurgery and the removal of the brain tumor,that was so debilitating for her, and awaiting the birth of her baby. Her Mum has been her constant companion, as despite a small...

Charity’s shy, sweet smile greeted the midwives every morning for 12 weeks: second bed on the left. After the normal birth of a beautiful baby boy at Selian Lutheran Hospital in early February, Charity developed a deep vein thrombosis (DVT). A DVT is a large blood...

Regina married and conceived in 2000, but attempted to deliver the child at home. The labour was obstructed and finally she gave birth to a still born child, resulting in uncontrollable urine leakage which started a few days later. Her husband became inpatient with...