Kagando hospital medical team preparing a patient
Dr Khisa one of WAHA's main collaborators from Kenya is currently carrying out surgery at a fistula camp in western Uganda.
Patient ward at the Fistula Center in Jimma Hospital
The first patients were operated in the newly established fistula center at the Jimma University Hospital in Ethiopia.
Fistula Camp in Tanzania
Thirty-seven women suffering from obstetric fistula underwent surgical repair in October during an 11-day fistula camp in a hospital in Sumbawanga, Tanzania.
Dr. Mulu Muleta doing a presentation on fistula
A lot of attention was given to obstetric fistula at the World Congress of Urology held in Morocco last week.
WAHA International organised its first vesico-vaginal fistula (VVF) camp in Eritrea in June 2010. The intervention was implemented by WAHA International in co-operation with the Ministry of Health of Eritrea. The team was composed of Dr. Khaddaj, Prof. Gueye and Dr. El Sayed.
Until recently no up-to-date training manual for fistula surgeons existed. Over the past three years fistula specialists have been meeting to produce a competency based training manual for fistula surgery. The latest meeting has just ended in Morocco where the manual has been finalised.