obstetric fistula
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A tale of ridicule, isolation and trauma: obstetric fistula
By Byron Mutingwende Gamuchirai Tsiga (not her real name) rues the year she fell pregnant as a teenager while she was doing her Form Three at a school in the remote Karoi District of Mashonaland West Province. “I was 16 years old when I fell pregnant. My lover Gerald had promised me heaven…