Yesterday was a wonderful day for my patient ''Mama Brown ''. She is the 2nd. from the left - back row. She could go home after being in the hospital for weeks and having had her 3rd. VVF surgery. She is almost dry and for her that is a miracle. We do VVF surgeries onboard the AFM and it is a surgery for woman that have developed a fistula due to being in labor for too long - normally 3-4 days. It is unfortunatly very common here in West Africa.
We are so grateful that we can help some of those ladies - they are so sweet and have gone through so much trouble, often still from the time of the civil war that Liberia had for 14 years. It ended in 2003.
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