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Tirunesh has reclaimed her future after obstetric fistula

Because of you, Tirunesh is cured from obstetric fistula and is looking forward to the future.

Tirunesh lives with her husband and two year old child in southern Ethiopia. She was delighted when she found out she was expecting her second child. 

After six days in obstructed labor, she delivered a stillborn baby and sustained an obstetric fistula.ย 

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Tirunesh lived with an obstetric fistula injury for a year. Hidden away at home, she became malnourished as she refused to eat to prevent body waste.

โ€œSince the injury, I do not go to the market or to church. When I tried to go to church I leaked urine and people shunned me. It was very embarrassing.โ€ - Tirunesh

Tirunesh heard about Hamlinโ€™s Yirgalem Fistula Hospital from a woman who had been treated there. She travelled there with her mother and child and received surgery that transformed her life.

โ€œI am dry and cured now. Thank you to everyone who supported me.โ€ - Tirunesh 

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Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation is fiscally sponsored by Myriad USA (formerly King Baudouin Foundation United States - KBFUS) (EIN582277856) and Myriad Canada (RCO769784893RR0001)

Photography credits to Cameron Bloom, Nigel Brennan, Mary F. Calvert, Kate Geraghty, Amber Hooper, Joni Kabana, Johannes Remling and Martha Tadesse.

Patient names have been changed to protect the identities of those we help.