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Podcast: We Go There Podcast
Episode: $633 to Save a Life: The Childbirth Injury No One Is Talking About
Description: What if the difference between lifelong isolation and restored dignity was $633?
In this powerful conversation, Nikki sits down with Kate Grant, founding CEO of the Fistula Foundation, to talk about obstetric fistula — a preventable childbirth injury that affects millions of women in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia when emergency obstetric care isn’t available.
After days of obstructed labor, many women lose their babies and are left with a constant drip of fecal and urinary incontinence, often facing abandonment and social isolation. And yet — 90% of the time — a trained surgeon can repair the injury and give a woman h...