I would not wish fistula even on my worst enemy, woman says

Inviolata Nabwire and her husband Joseph Ogola in their single-roomed house
in Kwa Rhonda Estate, Nakuru County. The 40-year-old woman developed fi stula
when she was a teenager after undergoing a caesarian section operation. [PHOTO: HENRY KWENYA/ STANDARD]

Seated on a wooden chair in her single-room house with her husband, Inviolata Nabwire has not known happiness since 1991.

An obstetric fistula victim, the 40-year-old woman has to contend with all manner of public ridicule. A person suffering from the condition has no control of the bowels.