Fistula

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/health/24hospital.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1

This is a very sad article about women from poor countries who are malnourished. They get pregnant and try to deliver a baby but they can't deliver through their birthing canals because they are not developed enough. So this causes them to be in Labors for weeks until the baby dies. Once that occurs the baby can pass through the birth canal. After all of this is over there is a hole made between the bladder and the vagina. It is an internal wound that makes the women unable to hold their urine so they leak it out wherever they go.

Because of this they are ostracized from their families and friends. They smell and they are also in pain. Many of them suffer from nerve damage on the leg. In developed countries this kind of thing is not seen because there are doctors that will treat mothers that have complication. But in these countries they don't have access to that so they end up with a very painful disease, Fistula.

Here is a video that shows you what fistula looks like and what it does to those that are its victims.


Here is another link related to the previous video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daAjZ0QX8LY