Recently Stephanie Linus Extended Hands Foundation was in Kwara State
where 15 women living with VVF received free repair surgeries at the
Kwara Specialist Hospital, Ilorin, Kwara State. The women all had
successful surgeries and were nursed back to health at the hospital.
Before
the surgeries, many of them had been shunned and separated from their
families as a result of the embarrassing effects of the condition. Some
of them lost their jobs, their
husbands, and were forced to live in degrading conditions.
Vesico Vaginal Fistula (VVF) is a serious
disability
that can be experienced by women after childbirth. They are holes
resulting from the breakdown in the tissue between the vaginal wall and
the bladder or rectum caused by unrelieved obstructed labour. The
consequence of such damage is a woman’s inability to control the flow of
urine or faeces. It occurs more often in young women during childbirth,
as their bodies are not yet mature for the process.
The
pool effort was lauded by the First Lady of Kwara State Mrs Omolewa
Ahmed who received Stephanie Linus and her team from Extended Hands
Foundation as well as the
Diamond Bank team at the State House in Ilorin.
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