Dr. Lucien Wasingia Kasereka

Childbirth injuries here in Congo, they are most common because we have poor access to safe delivery. Many women, they end up delivering at home or on the roads. And in unstable areas where there is war, like in the eastern part, some they run to the bush and they deliver in the bush. So that we got quite a big number of childbirth injuries. Women, they end up licking urine or stool.

Yhteisö ei ymmärrä näitä ongelmia. He ajattelevat, että tämä on Jumalan pysymys ja tämä ihminen pitäisi käydä tämän kautta.

Ja heidät stigmatisoivat, yksilöivät ja heidät jättävät yhteisöihin. Ja heidät jättävät, että he tekevät vihreämpiä. Se on iso haaste täällä Kongossa. Ja me pysymme käsittelemään näitä naisia ja autamme heidät vahvasti. Koska fistula voi olla vahvistettu ja käsitellyt jopa vahvasti. Doktor, miten voit auttaa naisia vahvistamaan sitä stigmaa?

After surgery we do psychotherapy. We have a big team of psychologists and we've got some kind of reintegration program. We can give them seeds so that they can go back to their community. We do like social reintegration because most of them, they always lost their job. The majority, they lose their babies because during the obstructed labor, the baby, most of the time, the baby will die. And at the end,

Dr. Lucien Wasingia-Kasideka in the Democratic Republic of Congo. How much information, how much education is there where you are for women? Most of the time the women, they always hide in the community. They just think that childbirth injuries, they have to go through that because they have delivered. Even some midwives, they will tell them, you are no longer...

Single girls, you are now a woman. You have to go through that and they will hide the disease. So that we are trying to work hard to do awareness, to increase awareness. We do like TV talks and radio talks to try to explain to the women about the childbirth injuries. We are getting up to 5,000 and 7,000 new cases