Ensuring ANC services stressed to prevent obstetric fistula
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RANGPUR, Dec 20, 2020 (BSS) – Experts at a workshop have stressed ensuring antenatal care (ANC) services to prevent obstetric fistula, a devastating injury in which an abnormal opening forms between a woman’s bladder and vagina, resulting in urinary incontinence.
They viewed this at the divisional workshop on the UNFPA-funded ‘End Obstetric Fistula in Rangpur Division: Annual Progress and Highlights’ held at LABM Hospital in Parbatipur upazila of Dinajpur on Saturday.
Presided over by Divisional Director (Health) Dr. Md. Ahad Ali, fistula, gynecological and urology experts, Civil Surgeons, Deputy Directors of the Department of Family Planning and superintendents of the district level hospitals of Rangpur division participated in the workshop.