Next month we start taking VVF patients. This population of women are our modern day lepers. They are treated as being cursed and a lot of times are for the most part shunned by society and many times are shunned by even their own family. VVF stands for vesicovaginal fistula and this condition is a lot of times caused by poor obstetric care and early marriage in women. Many of these women needed to get a cesarean surgery but instead went into labor for days and many times sadly lost their babies. VVF is very preventable and treatable if help is there. Many of these women are forced into marriage when they are very young, sometimes as young as 10 or 11.
We watched the documentary called A Walk to Beautiful to give us more insight on these patients we'll be getting next month to know where they're coming from. This documentary was on Ethiopian women who went to a clinic in Addis Abba which is ironically where our flight originally got re-routed to on our way to Togo. I remember getting on the plane and we had to ask what country we were going to because we had never heard of Addis Abba. Mercy Ships also has a VVF clinic on land in Sierre Leon that we were told about. Sierre Leon's main language is creole which is broken English.
http://fistulafoundation.org/
We watched the documentary called A Walk to Beautiful to give us more insight on these patients we'll be getting next month to know where they're coming from. This documentary was on Ethiopian women who went to a clinic in Addis Abba which is ironically where our flight originally got re-routed to on our way to Togo. I remember getting on the plane and we had to ask what country we were going to because we had never heard of Addis Abba. Mercy Ships also has a VVF clinic on land in Sierre Leon that we were told about. Sierre Leon's main language is creole which is broken English.
http://fistulafoundation.org/
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