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Why high fertility rates in North Eastern has hand in fistula cases

Fatuma Abdalla( in a black veil) during the interview in her home in Garissa County. Her husband left her in 2015 while expecting their third child following years of untreated fistula. [Photo: Standard]

Veiled. This is the only way Fatuma Abdalla would open up about the condition that cost her marriage.

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