The United Nations Population Fund has supported free fistula repair surgeries for 104 patients at the Vesico Vaginal Fistula Centre at Gambo Sawaba General Hospital, Zaria, Kaduna State.
Common causes of VVF are obstructed labour, early marriage, poverty, and women’s limited access and control to family resources. Describing the intervention as one of UNFPA’s priority areas in the state, Evborein said that the curative intervention was being matched with preventive services like community campaigns to end fistula.
“We are also encouraging girl-child education to ensure that youths go as far as possible in their educational pursuit, which in the long run will prevent early marriage.”
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