Dr Tigist is an obstetrician and gynaecologist at Hamlin’s Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital. Here, the doctors usually give caesarean section service for mothers with previous birth injuries, including obstetric fistula. Usually, these patients have had an obstructed labour so a standard delivery is not recommended.
The Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia teams provide a maternal waiting area for women who came from rural areas where they can’t get access to a caesarean section delivery. The team give them a place to stay so they know the patient’s and the baby’s condition then, usually at 39 weeks of gestation, they do a caesarean section. Usually our patients recover quite fast.
Dr Tigist told us about her recent patient, a mother called Debritu. She has been at Hamlin’s Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital for the past one month. ‘She came from a warlike area so she came in early. She is lucky to have a safe and healthy delivery after the trauma of obstetric fistula, which she was cured from at this hospital’, said Dr Tigist.
“We strive to give a positive birth experience. This is a happy story because not a lot of women are lucky to have a healthy baby in a good facility like this, so today is a good day for us and the family.” – Dr Tigist Tesfa
‘Today we had a good experience’, says Dr Tigist. ‘We have a tradition of making a pleasant sound when the baby is born.’
Dr Tigist also had a message for Drs Catherine and Reg Hamlin as well as the Hamlin community, ‘I would like to thank Dr. Catherine Hamlin and Dr. Reginald Hamlin for building this hospital, which serves a lot of unfortunate women. I would also like to thank all the partners and the donors for letting us do our best work here at the Hamlin Fistula Hospital.
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