UNFPA and partners triple fistula repairs but Ghana needs 2,249 a year to meet 2030 target

Every year, an estimated 845 women in Ghana develop obstetric fistula, a severe and preventable childbirth injury that leaves the body permanently altered, that ends marriages, ends livelihoods, and ends the life a woman knew before she went into labour. Fewer than 30 per cent of these women will ever receive the surgical repair that […]

By Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie