Pregnant women waiting to see a doctor at a hospital in Uganda. Shutterstock 2 enero 2019 Why improving access to surgery in childbirth makes economic sense Isabella Epiu, MD PhD, Makerere University If women don’t have access to quality emergency surgery, they can develop dibilitating complications such as fistula.
Shutterstock 5 junio 2018 Suffering in silence: how Kenyan women live with profound childbirth injuries Kathomi Gatwiri, Southern Cross University Each year an estimated 100 000 women have complications during childbirth which leave them with obstetric vaginal fistula.
Women in Africa have poor access to emergency obstetric care during childbirth. David Mooring/flickr 22 mayo 2016 Better maternal care in Africa can save women from suffering in childbirth Kareemah Gamieldien, Cape Peninsula University of Technology More than two million women across the world suffer from obstetric fistula – a hole in the birth canal that makes them incontinent – but this can be avoided.