matercare lifesaver program pays for Obstetric Fistula
Prolonged and unrelieved obstructed labour usually causes the death of child and/or mother. In small remote villages the local midwife can't perform a Caesarian delivery.
If the mother survives, the obstructed labour has ruptured the internal passages of bladder and rectum.
The mother is left permanently incontinent, unable to contain urine or faeces, which leak out through her vagina. She is constantly wet, filthy and smelly. She is shunned by her husband and village. Carrying a bowl between her legs, she is left to fend for herself.
Folklore compounds the mother's misery : in local belief, obstetric fistula is a result of marital infidelity or sexually transmitted disease. Thus in addition to her extreme physical discomfort, the mother bears an unwarranted burden of shame and guilt.
Estimates are that well over 1,000,000 mothers suffer this condition.
Surgery to repair obstetric fistula is relatively simple and inexpensive (approx. $425 Cdn.), BUT ... since this ailment no longer exists in developed countries, our medical schools no longer train doctors to do this surgery
each click pays 2 cent toward this operation for a woman who seriously needs it
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