Equatorial Guinea - Campaign to End Fistula

TABLE 11:
DISTRIBUTION OF WOMEN LIVING WITH OBSTETRICAL FISTULA,
ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF DELIVERIES AND SITE OF DELIVERY
(JUNE 2005)
SITE OF DELIVERY
NUMBER OF DELIVERIES
Unknown 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 & +
HOSPITAL 0 9 5 0 0 3 1 9 27
PRIVATE CLINIC 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
HEALTH CENTER 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
HEALTH POST 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
HOME WITH TRAD MIDWIVE 0 6 2 3 0 3 1 3 18
QUACKERY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
HOME W/O ASSISTANCE 0 8 2 1 0 0 2 3 16
NO/RECORD 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
ALONE W/O ASSISTANCE 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
TOTAL 0 24 11 5 0 6 4 16 66
TOTAL
GRAPHIC 11:
DISTRIBUTION OF WOMEN LIVING WITH OBSTETRIC FISTULAS, ACCORDING TO THE
NUMBER OF DELIVERIES AND SITE OF DELIVERY
(JUNE 2005)
N.Women
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
HOSPITAL
PRIVATE
CLINIC
HEALTH
CENTER
HEALTH
POST
HOME WITH
TRAD
MIDWIVE
QUACKERY
HOME W/O
ASSISTANCE
NO/RECORD
ALONE W/O
ASSISTANCE
Unknow n
1
2
3
4
5
6
7 & +
Site of delivery
Comments:
This table indicates that the low geographic access of women to health services due to the low functioning of the primary
health cares, poverty of many families and the lack of information of the population makes that most of the deliveries be
conducted without any assistance, with 16 cases (34%), followed by the deliveries conducted at homes assisted by traditional
midwives, with 27 cases (27%) ended by deliveries carried out in hospitals, 27 cases (40%). Therefore, it is concluded that the
only way to decrease the incidence of obstetrical fistula will be the increasing of institutional deliveries (institutional delivery
means that any delivery conducted in a hospital or health center).
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