Waiting for attention and care: birthing accounts of women in rural Tanzania who developed obstetric fistula as an outcome of labour

• Ngā kaituhi matua: Mselle Lilian T (Author), Kohi Thecla W (Author), Mvungi Abu (Author), Evjen-Olsen Bjørg (Author), Moland Karen (Author)
• Hōputu: Pukapuka
• I whakaputaina: BMC, 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Ngā marau: article
• Urunga tuihono: Connect to this object online.

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Obstetric fistula is a physically and socially disabling obstetric complication that affects about 3,000 women in Tanzania every year. The fistula, an opening that forms between the vagina and the bladder and/or the rectum, is most f...