Healing Voices - part I
I spent a day at a fistula hospital in Ethiopia and came face to face with young women finding healing and hope from devastation and despair. What an experience!
I learned that many of the patients, as young as 13 years of age, have become pregnant before their bodies can safely deliver a baby into this world without medical assistance. But since these young mothers are unaware of the impending disaster, or just cannot afford the medical care, they end in a fistula “an opening between internal organs and the outside world,” says Dr. Catherine Hamlin.
Some of the girls experience labor pain for 4 or 5 days! I can’t even imagine that experience as I had a melt-down after only a few hours of labor. Then the young would-be mothers discover that the baby is dead and they too if the baby isn’t removed, soon!
After prolonged labor of this magnitude, women experience urine and/or faeces draining, uncontrolled, from their bodies. They are outcasts!
Project Hannah is stepping into this world of pain with a Healing Voice – an audio drama to educate and bring hope to these women.
Click here to read part II of Healing Voices.