Abstract
Zara, 16 years old, stands in front of the referral hospital in Niamey. It has taken her 2 days to get here from her remote village in Agadez; the sun reflects the shadow at her feet. She moves but the shadow does not. A health worker, waiting to intake the next patient, looks over and realizes it is not a shadow; it is a puddle of urine that has leaked from Zara’s fistula during the short time she stood waiting her turn to be evaluated for surgery.
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Rahimi, S., Capes, T., Ascher-Walsh, C. (2013). Obstetric Fistula. In: Shirazian, T., Gertz, E. (eds) Around the Globe for Women's Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8258-2_3
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