How to pronounce “fistula” in English

A fistula is actually an opening in the inside of an intestinal organ that connects one organ to another organ; and as a result, problems occur.

Most of them have fistula which is a hole between your vagina and your rectum, or your vagina and your bladder, and a lot of these women have fistula because so many things

her a lifetime like an obstructed fistula which is a horrible, horrible handicap -- female #1: Um-hum.

And I actually saw a fistula operation because I wanted to see what it looked like and it's like literally a hole in your soul -- it looks like somebody has punctured

These women come to this hospital-- does anyone know what a fistula is?

Now, a fistula occurs sometimes when a child is stuck in the birth canal.

And there are many people at Panzi with fistula at any given time so when you have it, you can't hold your pee or your poop and so you have a world of 300 women who are just peeing

sent home and she's raped again and then the fistula operation never works.

She was a former fistula patient.

many teenagers are too immature to really have a baby and they'll have an obstructed labor and they'll develop a fistula.

And for those of you who don't know, a fistula is a tear between a woman's vagina and either a rectum or urethra.

Because some of the charities-- the one you wrote about in an article, Fistula Foundation, was a great example.

And one of the main reasons she wants to do this is because she's lost two sisters to fistula, basically early

re-raped so Dr. Mukwege may do nine operations on a woman to fix fistula and then she gets

And there's about a million young girls, as far as I know, that have untreated fistulas, even though the fistula surgery's, I

Or are they going to face some of these horrible things that I mentioned earlier, teenage pregnancy and fistula and physical and sexual violence.

In their case, and this happens to about 400,000 women a year, they die as a result of childbirth, usually from the occurrence of a fistula that's not repaired

This little girl here on the left, actually, has a fistula as a result of rape.