If women don’t have access to quality emergency surgery, they can develop dibilitating complications such as fistula.
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Each year an estimated 100 000 women have complications during childbirth which leave them with obstetric vaginal fistula.
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.
