Liberia’s Fistula Wait Years

MonroviaSome women wait years for a single operation.

Obstructed labour without a caesarean tears tissue between bladder and vagina, causing lifelong incontinence.

Specialist repair surgeons remain scarce across Liberia, so a backlog stacks on top of the original injury.

The report names no timeline for expanding Liberia’s supply of repair surgeons.

How each outlet framed it

SciDev.Net leans critical: foregrounds three-year treatment delays for fistula patients and accessibility gap in low-income Sub-Saharan Africa