时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2012年(六月)


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Fistula Surgery Changes Nigerian Women's Lives



Allowing the patient to live a normal life and giving her back some dignity is the objective of this surgery performed in Jahun hospital, in northeast Nigeria.


Since 2008, the aid group Doctors Without Borders has operated on women with obstetric fistulas, also known as VVF.


The condition is a tear between the vagina and the bladder or the rectum. It results from a difficult or prolonged childbirth, without proper medical assistance, which provokes tissue necrosis.


Fatima Mohammed gave birth a few weeks ago.


"I spent 2 days in labor 1, and then I passed out," she said. "I was unconscious for 4 days, I don't even remember which day I gave birth. After I delivered, this is when I started having a VVF and started to leak."


Each month in Jahun, the surgeons hired by Doctor Without Borders operate on about 20 women. The fistula is not lethal 2, but causes a permanent incontinence. Women get soiled, smell bad, and then their lives collapse 3. They are often rejected by their husband and pushed aside by the community, as Habsa Musa has experienced.


"Because I was leaking, I thought my husband was going to leave me, because he had spent so much money for me at the Birenenkudu Hospital," she said.


After the surgery, the patients have physiotherapy sessions and a psychosocial follow-up to help them get back into society. The goal is also to break the taboo 4 over this infirmity: the V V F can be avoided and can be healed, as Jahun hospital's nurse Bilkisou Aliyou explains.


"When they come, we have different type of treatment. because some of them do not even need surgery. With catheter treatment, they can be fine. And some of them will undergo surgery and they will be fine," said Aliyou.


But the challenge is still huge. Each year, 600,000 new cases are detected. One third of them in Africa. 




n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
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  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
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  • Is there a taboo against sex before marriage in your society?在你们的社会里,婚前的性行为犯禁吗?
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