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DAKAR (PANA) Obstetric fistula as a result preparation h of the persistence of inequalities in health care and human rights - It is now possible to prevent obstetric fistula which affects about two million women and girls in developing countries, according to the Executive Director of United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, for which the theme of the May 23 celebration of the International Day ("Detect fistulas - Transforming Lives"), "illustrates an important step forward towards the eradication of this disease. "
Obstetric fistula is the formation of an abnormal communication (fistula) between the bladder and vagina (vesicovaginal fistula) or between the bladder and the rectum (vesico-rectal) occurring after a complicated pregnancy and during prolonged labor due to obstruction of the delivery preparation h path and when the woman does not get the cesarean deemed necessary in such a case. Women who have this preventable disease, suffer permanent urinary incontinence that can cause skin infections, kidney disease and even death in the absence of treatment and develop within the family and community stigma that forces women suffering from this condition to hide. Thus these women are never cured of their lives and even if they get healing after surgery, the disease can easily occur again when these women and girls are pregnant again, without have previously submitted to regular medical follow-up. Obstetric fistula can be avoided. For this, it is sufficient, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) to postpone the age of first pregnancy, to end harmful traditional practices and afford timely access to obstetric care. It is further necessary that women suffering from this condition out of the isolation in which they are confined by stigma, to access appropriate care. Prevention and treatment of obstetric fistula preparation h contribute to the improvement of maternal health, the fifth Millennium preparation h Development Goals. "To treat fistula preparation h and provide women with medical follow-up care, we need to be better informed about the number preparation h of women and girls who need services preparation h and also know where they live," said Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, in a statement published today, which states that "systematically recording and tracking preparation h every woman and girl who is or has been suffering from obstetric fistula, we can move very quickly in improving their well-being and provide opportunities to much greater in babies born future pregnancies "survival. Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin believes that obstetric fistula "highlights the continuing global inequalities in access to health care and basic human rights" and to end the health crisis it represents, "we must enhance national capacity to provide access to sexual and reproductive health policy and high quality, including family planning and maternity care in particular comprehensive emergency "obstetric care. It is essential to "detect and treat all