#obstetric

[yokeproductions]

Fistula Film

Fistula

This short film has been made to raise awareness, reduce stigma about fistula, and highlight the devastating impact fistula has on women who live with this condition. The goal is to make life better and safer for women giving birth and to prevent fistula from happening in the first place. The film is a call to action to improve access to maternal care including quality, safe, timely, and affordable surgical, obstetric, and anesthesia care—and promote safe motherhood for all.

What is Fistula ? Obstetric fistula is a devastating childbirth injury in which an abnormal opening forms between a woman’s bladder and vagina or between the rectum and the vagina as a result of prolonged obstructed labor, resulting in continuous urinary or stool leakage. This condition is rare in high-income countries due to readily available obstetric care, while it continues to plague women in low resource settings. Estimates suggest that at least 2 million women have unrepaired obstetric fistula in low-income countries.

Goal The goal of this film is to enhance public, national, and international awareness, raising the priority of women’s reproductive health for low resource countries, expanding access to emergency obstetric and surgical services, and supporting holistic and high-quality obstetric fistula care for all who need it. The film is particularly timely given recent WHO data in 2023 showing that maternal deaths have increased or stagnated in nearly all regions of the world in the last 20 years, and continued staggering gaps in access to surgical, obstetric, and anesthesia care.

The film will also decrease the stigma imposed on women living with fistula through awareness. Finally, with increasing migration of women to high resource countries due to global instability from conflict, climate change, pandemic etc, it is critical that the medical community in high resource countries is educated and prepared to care for these women.

There is are 2 versions ((7min and 2min)

There is are 2 versions (7min and 2min)

Directed : Dearbhla Glynn Produced : Paddy Daly DOP : Paddy Jordan Executive Producer : Dr Rahel Nardos Editor : Cara Holmes Additional Editor : Michael Higgins Offline / Online Editor : Michael Higgins Founder Terrewoode and Executive Director: Alice Emasu Seruyange Medical Director Terrewoode : Mary Aono Programs Manager Terrewoode : Martha Ibeno HR/Admin Manager Terrewoode : Monica Opus Finance Manager Terrewoode : Lutie Kobusinge Uganda FIxer and Sound operator : Kisakye David Bel-lion Translation: Stella Apio and Alvine Nanyange Driver: Jafali Peirre Music : The Blaze Aidan Kavanagh

Funding support Maternal Health Fund https://maternalhealthfund.org/

University of Minnesota, Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility https://globalhealthcenter.umn.edu/global-womens-health

Global Women’s Initiative https://gwhi.org/

Advocacy Partners The Global Alliance for Surgical, Obstetric, Trauma, and Anaesthesia Care (G4 Alliance) https://www.theg4alliance.org/

Film Hosts Terrewode Women’s Community Hospital https://terrewode.org/ Director of Global Women's Health, Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility, University of Minnesota. Dr Rahel Nardos

Special Thanks Asalo Rose Isiangu lois Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility team at the University of Minnesota Terrewode Women’s Community Hospital Management The patients who shared their stories The G4 Alliance Joseph Kinihan Alice Emasu Nigel Rossiter & In Memory of Steven J Sockolov

[hollow-head]

surely this has been done

[mysharona1987]

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[leeromeestudies]

one week until the first ob exam

[heardatmedschool]

Intern 1: I just went into my first C-section!

Intern 2: How did it go?

Intern 1: I don’t want children anymore.

[dissvicious]

just a normal breakfast in the Victoria Punk's galley

[pro-birth]

Just like with Amber Thurman's family, Nevaeh Craine's family is appalled that her death is being used for politics, and blames medical negligence for her demise -- NOT abortion restrictions.

STOP USING OUR BROKEN AND DEAD BODIES TO SUPPORT CHILD KILLING. DOING SO ENABLES MEDICAL SEXISM AND ABUSE THAT ACTUALLY HURTS US.

[six-shots-of-espresso]

The man, the legend.

Bildad the Shuhite

[lichqueenlibrarian]

Once again the James Blish adaptations... Who Mourns for Adonais? ends with McCoy revealing that Lt Carolyn Palomas is pregnant and it’s Apollo’s baby.

[bil-daddy]

Nice.

Also. Show of hands. Who here is not a bot? Cause I feel like some of ya'll might be bots

(Looking at you @nuttyconnoisseurperson)

(platonic)

[antithesisofindifference]

I feel like no one's discussing the significance of the circumstances in which Jen was bound. Jen was a midwife, she became bound when she showed up to an obstetrics conference. I find it interesting that Jen had someone under the guise of obstetrics take away her power and autonomy when in US history, the field of obstetrics was created through torturous "experiments" and "surgeries" on enslaved black women because they believed they couldn't feel pain. I'm so impressed by the parallel here, and how they are linking persecution of witches to other forms of oppression as well.

[punkraccoon]

Most people get a man who's skilled at either obstetrics or cobbling. Aziraphale got himself a man who can do both.

[meeeeebgan]

Me since July 28th 2023

[thestarlightforge]

Agatha left Jennifer alone because she was doing “the real work.” Not just as a witch, but as an 11th generation root worker and midwife.

Because if she’d had a Jen instead of being isolated and alone, Nicky might have had a chance.

[heardatmedschool]

“Bring me back to the womb, gestation did not prepare me enough for all these adverse extra-uterine conditions.”