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How traditional birth attendant cut woman into 11-year agony

Joyce Mutama ,31. She has had to undergo six surgeries after a delivery mishap 11 years ago. [Graham Kajilwa, Standard]

Words are not enough to tell of the pain Joyce Mutama has been through.

All because of a simple mistake in the hands of a traditional birth attendant-an elderly woman who ended up slashing her rectum and sewed it back to her vagina.

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