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So, this is absolutely wonderful. Susanne Alldén who is program af9 director at the Panzi Hospital has translated a Congolese woman's story of how she had help back to a dignified life through our collection.
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My name Furaha af9 * and I come from a village in the province of Katanga in DR Congo. I am 23 years old, is married and has four children. I lived a good life until one day when I could bear children. It was 2010, but I do not remember quite what month it was. I was at home and was about to begin feeding, and my husband called for help from the village midwife. The nearest hospital is far from our village and usually so usually all go well when the village midwife af9 helps. But this day, it was not as planned. There were complications af9 during birth and the midwife could not repair the tissue damage that occurred. In fear of losing the baby, my husband decided that we had to go to the hospital after all, to see if the child could be saved. We had to transport us with a wood-echo and arrived first one day later. Once at the hospital, the doctors tried to do a cesarean section to save the baby but it was already too late and my child was dead. In the two years since that day, I leaked urine, both day and night.
When I left the hospital and came home, I tried to cure myself with the help of a traditional drug method but nothing helped. I talked to several people, but no one could give me answers as to what the problem was or how to solve it.
Since I was leaking urine mocked, I often by others, and they avoided me when I went to church or if we met on the market. Everyone who passed me on the street laughed at me because af9 I smelled bad. This was the worst, and I suffered something terrible inside. At home with me, I experienced not a problem. af9 My husband gave me tremendous support and constantly tried to say that it will work out, one day you'll have healed properly." I finally dared to not go out because I could not manage to hear all the taunts, but I stayed af9 in our house with our children.
One day I heard about a couple of doctors from Panzi Hospital who visited our village. I was listening to the radio and the doctors asked all women who suspected they might suffered af9 from a fistula would come to the hospital for consultation. They described the symptoms and I thought that finally maybe I could help.
When I got to the hospital I met several women from around our village who all had the same problem as me. I had no idea that there were others like me out there. The doctors looked at us and some were operated on site, while I and two others had such severe injuries that doctors wanted us to go to Panzi Hospital in the province of South Kivu for help.
I came to Panzi Hospital in October 2012, but I had surgery not until December. Everything went well and I can not stop smiling! I feel good again, it's really a miracle that occurred. I will go home to my village af9 as soon as I can, and I will walk in the village street with your head high and no one will mock me again.
* Name changed af9 to protect the young woman's identity. af9 There is a huge stigma associated with fistula in DR Congo, and many women do not dare to seek help. Many times they do not even know that they can get help. Panzi Hospital annually conducts a number of educational campaigns af9 to educate the population about what the problems with fistula really is, and that it is curable. In connection with these campaigns go doctor from Panzi Hospital af9 and carrying out simple fistelreparationer and tries to simultaneously train local doctors so they can operate simpler cases in the future. More severe cases are transported to the Panzi Hospital. In the case of Katanga helped your collection that most women with severe fistula could be transported to the Panzi.
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