The Médecins Sans Frontières, doctors without borders (MSF) have performed free vesicovaginal surgeries (VVF) to 4,931 patients at the Jahun VVF center in Jigawa from 2008 to date.
This was revealed by the Medical Activities Manager, the MSF project, Jahun Dr. Fatima Aliyu, while sending questions to journalists in the center during the media, they occurred to the facilities as part of the celebration of the Day of the Obstetric Fistula of 2025 organized by the state of Jigawa of the Family Planning Media Forum with support for Devcoms.
The medical activities manager, the MSF project explained that “74 surgeries have been carried out in 2025, and a total of 4,931 surgeries carried out since the project began in 2008”.
Dr. Fatima Aliyu explained that emphasis on the need “for greater awareness about the importance of planned pregnancies, birth preparation, preparation for complications, access to quality prenatal services with a clear delivery plan, ensuring the presence of a specialized native assistant during childbirth and childbirth.”
According to her, “the main causes of the obstetric fistula are due to the lack of availability of quality prenatal care with the focus on the delivery plan, a poor attitude towards the preparation of the birth, the lack of preparation of complications, the lack of qualified birth attendees, poor monitoring of women during work, the lack of complication and early intervention, the rapid reference to the facilities for the facilities for the facilities for the facilities for the facilities for the facilities Qualified human resources “.
He pointed out that family planning/spacing is an important strategy control for cases “and guarantees a safe experience of maternity (healthy mother, healthy baby), reducing morbidity and maternal mortality in general, not only specific to obstetric fistula.”
Dr. Aliyu said that the presence of MSF increases access to basic and integral emergency emergency care and newborns in the state of Jigawa, adding that “MSF increases the availability of material and qualified human resources, rapid derivation and health promotion to increase awareness about the preparation for birth, qualified assistance and preparation for complications.”
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