This is very heartwarming especially to women out there, to know that Superstar actress Stephanie Linus Okereke's foundation known as 'The Extended Hands Foundation' has performed a repair surgery to about 20-women with Vesico Vaginal Fistula [VVF] at the University College Hospital [UCH] Ibadan.
This kind act of charity by this young and talented actress and her foundation is to give support and hope to those women out there whose lives are threatened by this disease, at least they can be sure that they can get the best of medical treatments and have a normal life as a woman again.
Through her foundation, several surgical and electrical equipments were donated to the hospital at an event that marked the success of this good work of charity by Stephanie Linus Okereke.
Vesico Vaginal Fistula (VVF) is a serious disability that can be experienced by women after childbirth. They are holes resulting from the breakdown in the tissue between the vaginal wall and the bladder or rectum caused by unrelieved obstructed labour. The consequence of such damage is a woman’s inability to control the flow of urine or faeces. It occurs more often in young women during childbirth, as their bodies are not yet mature for the process.
Those present at this life-changing event at the University College Hospital [UCH] Ibadan were Chief Medical Director of UCH Ibadan, Professor Temitope Alonge; Head of Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Professor Ayo Arowojodu and the Chief Medical Consultant, Department of Genitourinary & Urogynaecology Professor O. A. Ojengbede.
She carried out this repair surgeries on these 20-women at no cost, this is such a wonderful benevolence and magnanimity of her good person, and I must state that I appreciate her so much for having done this for the women.
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