Nigeria, VVS patients, sept dec 2012.

Senior VVF surgeon Dr. Said and VVF Nurse Manager Kate Norgang discuss a VVF repair. Dr. Said is an avid teacher; all staff involved with the VVF program learns from him on a regular basis.

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Nigeria, vesico-vaginal fistulas in Jahun hospital, Ruth Grace / MSF, sept 2012.

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF131051

Date taken / Date Recorded 19/01/2013 12:00 AM

Country Nigeria

Commissioning section MSF-FRANCE

Photographer / videographer / producer Ruth Grace

Copyright Ruth Grace/MSF

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Additional Information / Shotlist According to a report by UNFPA, among the 1 million women affected by the vesico-vaginal fistulas in the world, 400 000 live in in Nigeria. It's thus a major major public health. Fsitulas are a result from obstructed labor; the infant’s head compresses and eventually damages both nerve and tissue during prolonged passage in the pelvis bones.
MSF opened a program of hospital care in the Jahun hospital in 2008. It combines the management of obstetric emergencies and surgery of fistulas. Each month more than 500 women come to this hospital given birth with safely and one hundred women receive a fistula surgery as well as physiotherapy sessions.