Existence of Dismissal: Obstetric Fistula in Ethiopa
Addis Ababa Fisula Hospital is founded by two gynecologists from Australia in 1974 - Dr. Catherine Hamlin and her husband - Dr. Reginald Hamlin. The patients of the hospital are women with childbirth injuries. The injured women suffer in silence for years. Fistula creates an unyielding inconvenience not only for the woman living with this condition, but also for her family and her entire community. Because of the smell of constantly leaking urine, these women are often shunned from the village and have no means for survival. Many of them go to monasteries to live. Others choose the anonymity of homelessness in a big city, until someone tells them that a cure awaits them in places such as Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital or some of its outreach centers in Bahr Dar, Yirgalem and Mekelle.

Addis Ababa Fisula Hospital is founded by two gynecologists from Australia in 1974 - Dr. Catherine Hamlin and her husband - Dr. Reginald Hamlin. The patients of the hospital are women with childbirth injuries. The injured women suffer in silence for years.

Fistula creates an unyielding inconvenience not only for the woman living with this condition, but also for her family and her entire community. Because of the smell of constantly leaking urine, these women are often shunned from the village and have no means for survival. Many of them go to monasteries to live. Others choose the anonymity of homelessness in a big city, until someone tells them that a cure awaits them in places such as Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital or some of its outreach centers in Bahr Dar, Yirgalem and Mekelle.