100 VVF patients to benefit from IDB funds

Disclosing this, the Executive Director of The Foundation for Women’s Health, Research and Development (FORWARD), who is also the director of the centre, Dr Rahmat H Muhammad, said the project has a lifespan of 18 months within which it would provide respite to the 100 VVF patients. She explained that the project would, among other […]

Disclosing this, the Executive Director of The Foundation for Women’s Health, Research and Development (FORWARD), who is also the director of the centre, Dr Rahmat H Muhammad, said the project has a lifespan of 18 months within which it would provide respite to the 100 VVF patients.

She explained that the project would, among other things, “increase awareness on issues of fistulae by 50 percent, ensure that 100 women and girls suffering from fistulae have been surgically repaired, physically, socially and economically rehabilitated and re-integrated into the community.”

The executive director further disclosed that the assistance by the Islamic Development Bank was the first of its kind, saying for the ten year period of the establishment of the Dambatta Rehabilitation Centre, the centre had never received any donation from any Islamic country or organisation.

She urged other Islamic countries and organisations to emulate the gesture of the Islamic Development Bank by providing relief to the VVF patients, most of who were coming from poor families.

Unveiling the activities of FORWARD at the Dambatta VVF Centre, Dr Muhammed said the organisation was formed in 1999 to implement a three-year project on women’s health and development in Dambatta.