By Hou Akot Hou<\/p>\n
A free fistula surgery treatment camp that commenced in Aweil Civil Hospital, Northern Bahr El Ghazal State on Monday, is bringing a glimmer of hope and relief to patients.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Ayak Dut, a mother who suffered from fistula for years and was one of the first beneficiaries to be operated, now hopes that she will get better.<\/p>\n Mrs. Ayak has been stressed and drained by the condition that has made her grow weaker and weaker for the past five years.<\/p>\n \u201cI have been suffering for five years, and it is something that made me so weary, and indeed, I never thought that I would be okay,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cI will now see whether I will be better since the operation was done yesterday,\u201d she consoled.<\/p>\n Ayak believes she will fully recover and be like other mothers who do not have fistula ailments.<\/p>\n For his part, Aweil Civil Hospital Medical Director, Dr. Santino Ajou Tong, revealed that six fistula patients will undergo free surgery at Aweil Hospital this week.<\/p>\n \u201cThe fistula surgeons arrived on Saturday, and we have started operations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n However, the medical note noted that not all of the fistula patients will immediately go for the surgery, except those screened already.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have done the screening and will see who will go for the surgery, like the other woman, Ayak, who had a successful operation or surgery,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n Dr. Ajou urges the public to bring the patients to the hospital for registration and get free surgery for their fistulas.<\/p>\n A fistula is an abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect in the human tube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Hou Akot Hou A free fistula surgery treatment camp that commenced in Aweil Civil Hospital, Northern Bahr El Ghazal State on Monday, is bringing a glimmer of hope and relief to patients. Ayak Dut, a mother who suffered from fistula for years and was one of the first beneficiaries[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-northern-bahr-el-ghazal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18179,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18178\/revisions\/18179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}