Treatment and prevention of obstetric fistula-most common birth injury in Nortern Nigeria

Abstract

An obstetric fistula can be defined as a trauma caused by prolonged forced child birth.Factors have been associated: Child marriages and child bearing (age 12-16), lack of access to good health care facility, poor antenatal care, female circumcision, poor education and awareness, poverty. Obstetric Fistula is the leading cause of labor trauma in northern Nigeria due to poverty, bad heath care system, poor education and bad ethnic moral. This can be prevented by creating awareness on the cons of young marriage and child bearing, improving the health system making it easily accessible and affordable.