12,000 women live with obstetric fistula  …due to limited capacity to treat

‘A silent crisis’: Obstetric fistula affects 500,000 women, yet it’s fully treatable

Five days – that is how long it took Dah, a 14-year-old prospective mother from Côte d’Ivoire, to give birth. The child was stillborn and she developed obstetric fistula.

12,000 women live with obstetric fistula  …due to limited capacity to treat

More than 12,000 Ghanaian women currently live with obstetric fistula (OF) due to the country’s limited surgical capacity to treat them, the Country Representative, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Dr Wilfred Ochan, has said. Despite an estimated 1,300 women devel­oping the condition in Ghana annually, only 40 per cent were treated, leaving a majority of survivors to suffer in silence and self-iso­lation. Dr Wilfred Ochan (sixth from left)…