Day Nine: Women’s Health
Birth complications means many women end up with fistulas that leak urine and faeces continuously. Women are socially ostracised.
We watched the story of a lady called Mastula, and her experience of her life being turned upside down by a fistula. Lifetime risk of dying from childbirth and pregnancy. In the west it is 1 in 4300. In Afghanistan, it is 1 in 11.