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Reducing the agony of suffering women: National fistula center in forefront

STAR HEALTH REPORT
Due to lack of awareness an estimated 40,000 women suffer from obstetric fistula each year at the time of their delivery, which damages urinary tract, and often passage of the anus. As a result urination along with liquid faeces continue to discharge.
Many of the rural women suffer from this problem for life long without any treatment, as they are not aware about its treatment. But the good news is that, to help those agonising women, a National Fistula Centre at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) was inaugurated in September, 2003 with the help of the Government and United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA).
“A pregnant woman should not endure labour pain for more than 12 hours,” explained Dr Sayeba Akther, Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at DMCH who is also the National Focal Point of the centre.
“If, however, she does so, the pressure exerted on the child and the reproductive passage which harms both, leaves the child dead and the birth passage ruptured, often connecting to anus,” she added. Other than physical suffering women, who suffer obstetric fistula face social isolation, in most cases they are thrown out from both husband's and parent's home.
“My husband remarried as he was not satisfied in our conjugal life. He left me without even trying to repair the problems,” said Aklima, a housewife from Gopalganj.
“The aim of the centre is not just to provide treatment but also to launch awareness among people to protect themselves from possible risks of developing obstetric fistula. To fulfill this aim we arranged camps in district hospitals in five divisional areas in mid 2005,” mentioned Dr Sayeba Akhter.
Sufia, 25, got married at the age of 15. Within two years, while giving birth to her second child about seven years ago she suffered severe pain from ruptured birth passage that left the poor housewife profusely bleeding at home in Nandail in Mymensingh. Sufia could not return to her husband's house due to the illnesses she suffered and required permanent treatment, which was not available in her small village. “Everything was going peaceful until the day of my second child delivery that completely changed my life leaving me in pains in helpless condition,” Sufia recalled.
Although her guardians made several attempts to repair her wound
in her reproductive parts but in vain. About two years ago Sufia travelled to the capital to consult doctors at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) where doctors generously offered help along with financial support. National Fistula Centre at DMCH came as a boon to her life, expressed Sufia. Sufia also said that she did not undergo any antenatal check-up which usually detects position of the baby. As a result she could not realise that she and her baby was at risk. She and her family expected the baby to deliver normally like the previous one. She suffered, as she did not have any knowledge about the harmful affect of obstructed labour.
So to increase awareness among rural people especially adults and socially influential people, National Fistula Centre arranged a camps in five divisional areas.
It campaigned for the prevention of fistula. The other thing which is badly needed to reduce obstetrics fistula problem is to stop early marriage. In early age women's womb remain so narrow that it faces lots of pressure in normal delivery at the time of giving birth which causes obstetric fistula problem.