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FRED DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>, correspondent: The patients are often teenagers or barely in their twenties, yet several of them hobble in on walkers to physical therapy. These women suffer from fistulas, ruptures in vaginal, sometime even rectal tissue\u2014a humiliating, even crippling consequence in most cases because of obstructed childbirth.<\/p>\n

DR. CATHERINE HAMLIN<\/strong>: They\u2019re leaking urine, and some of them are leaking bowel contents as well.<\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: Dr. Catherine Hamlin and her late husband, Reginald, came to Ethiopia in the 1960s as Christian missionaries and founded the Hamlin Fistula Hospital a few years later. A memorial to her husband invokes the Gospel of Matthew.<\/p>\n

DR. HAMLIN<\/strong>: \u201cWhatever you did for one of the least of these, my brothers, you did for me.\u201d In the Bible it says my brothers, isn\u2019t it? We say brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: The least of the patients the young obstetricians saw were those with fistula. Amid a lot of suffering, Dr. Hamlin says the fistula patients were especially desperate.<\/p>\n

\"post02-fistula\"DR. HAMLIN<\/strong>: She\u2019s smelling. She\u2019s poor. She\u2019s got nothing, and she\u2019s an outcast from her whole society, from everything that makes her happy. They lie in bed thinking if I keep really still, the urine will dry up. They curl up in bed. They become stiff. Their knees become contracted, their hips become contracted. They get nerve damage to their feet. The sciatic nerve is pressed on by the long labor, and they\u2019ve got paralysis of the feet. They can\u2019t bring the foot up.<\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: Fistulas were common across the world until the early 20th century, when prenatal care and modern systems of delivering health care, like cesarian sections, became available. Today fistulas are almost unheard of in richer countries, but two million women endure them in the developing world.<\/p>\n

DR. YETNAYET ASFAW<\/strong>: For me as an Ethiopian, the fact that fistula is happening in the 21st century is not something that we are proud of.<\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: Dr. Yetnayet Asfaw works with a nongovernment aid group called Engender Health. She says the big issue is access to care in the vast, impoverished rural areas of this land of 82 million people plus myriad cultural practices.<\/p>\n

\"post04-fistula\"DR. ASFAW<\/strong>: Eight-four percent live in the rural population, so the majority are rural women, and for rural women the issues are many. Women don\u2019t have access to education. There are also several cultural issues, such as harmful traditional practices. Female genital mutilation is one, early marriage is another.<\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: Complications from the practice of cutting external female genitalia and other trauma, like rape, are thought to cause about 20 percent of fistulas. But the vast majority are a complication of obstructed labor, which results both in still birth and permanent injury to the young mother.<\/p>\n

DR. HAMLIN<\/strong>: The pelvis of the woman is too small for the baby to come through, or the baby\u2019s in a bad position inside the woman. So my husband used to say it\u2019s either the passage or the passenger. The passage is the pelvis that it\u2019s got to negotiate to get out, and the passenger is the baby, which if it\u2019s not lying in the right position can cause the obstruction.<\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: Vaginal and rectal fistulas can be repaired surgically, and Dr. Hamlin, who is 87, still performs many of the procedures, like this woman\u2019s case. We were asked not to use patient names.<\/p>\n

DR. HAMLIN<\/strong>: Three days of labor, and then she had a stillborn baby, and then she was left with a vaginal fistula in her bladder. And it was quite\u2014it was a reasonably difficult one.<\/p>\n

\"post05-fistula\"DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: What\u2019s the period of convalescence?<\/p>\n

DR. HAMLIN<\/strong>: I think in about 10 or 12 days.<\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: She\u2019s better off than most women here. Many have lived with their injuries for years, too late to be repaired even with surgery. Hospital services are free, but transportation is often unaffordable\u2014if they can get a ride.<\/p>\n

So how far away has this lady traveled to be here?<\/p>\n

DR. HAMLIN<\/strong>: It\u2019s about a four-hour drive.<\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: Four-hour drive, which for her would mean a bus ride, maybe?<\/p>\n

HAMLIN<\/strong>: She would come in a bus, yes.<\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: Which sometimes is difficult for them, if they\u2019re\u2026<\/p>\n

DR. HAMLIN<\/strong>: Yes, it is difficult, and sometimes the passengers say, \u201cThis woman\u2019s smelling. Put her off. She\u2019s got some disease,\u201d and they\u2019ll be thrown off the bus.<\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: To offer better access to its services, the Hamlin Hospital created five satellite facilities like this one in the rural countryside. They are funded entirely by donations from governments and private, often church-based donors. Still, only a third of the 10,000 Ethiopian women who develop fistulas every year receive any care for them. That\u2019s why experts say it\u2019s important to shift the focus from repairing fistulas to preventing them. Ethiopia\u2019s minister of health, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus says a holistic approach is needed.<\/p>\n

\"post06-fistula\"DR. TEDROS GHEBREYESUS<\/strong> (Ethiopian Minister of Health): We need to focus more on community-based interventions and on preventing the fistulas. The most important issues, it\u2019s the education part, which will be very important, and also law enforcement, like age of marriage is very important. Girls\u2019 education is very important, and we\u2019re working on that.<\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: His ministry has won praise from public health experts for building a network of rural health centers in recent years, with a major focus on maternal and child health. But there\u2019s still a huge shortage of skilled people to staff them.<\/p>\n

Midwife students in class: Anterior, posterior \u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: A few years ago the Hamlin Hospital began a four-year midwifery program. These freshmen were studying plastic models of the female pelvis, learning how to detect abnormalities in the fetus position. So far two dozen graduates have gone on to staff regional health centers in rural areas\u2014a small, promising start, says Dr. Hamlin.<\/p>\n

DR. HAMLIN<\/strong>: We just have to keep the next generation of doctors and nurses inspired to help these women until it\u2019s eradicated from the countryside, and it can be eradicated and it will be eradicated. In England, obstetric fistulas no longer occurred after 1920, so it\u2019s not so very long ago that fistulas were occurring in England and in Europe.<\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: But Ethiopia, like so many developing countries, has a long way to go. Most Ethiopian women today still deliver their babies without the presence of a skilled birth attendant.<\/p>\n

For Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, his is Fred de Sam Lazaro in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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