{"id":171574,"date":"2015-12-03T05:15:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T05:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=171574"},"modified":"2016-11-10T11:18:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T11:18:58","slug":"over-13000-women-in-ghana-cant-control-urinating-or-defecation-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=171574","title":{"rendered":"Over 13,000 women in Ghana can&#8217;t control urinating or defecation\u00a0[Infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Ghana and the Ghana Health Service, has revealed that 1,352 new cases of fistula\u00a0are recorded annually in the country.<\/p>\n<p>An obstetric fistula is a hole between\u00a0the vagina and rectum or bladder that is caused by prolonged obstructed\u00a0labour, thereby leaving a woman with no control over urination or\u00a0defecation or both.<\/p>\n<p>The infographic below shows how serious the\u00a0situation of Obstetric Fistula is in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"overflow-y: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/magic.piktochart.com\/embed\/9758463-obstetric-fistula\" width=\"800\" height=\"4011\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Raymond Acquah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Ghana and the Ghana Health Service, has revealed that 1,352 new cases of fistula\u00a0are recorded annually in the country. An obstetric fistula is a hole between\u00a0the vagina and rectum or bladder that is caused by prolonged obstructed\u00a0labour, thereby leaving a woman with no control over urination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":171282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15,38,4751],"class_list":["post-171574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-chinese","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-zika-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/171282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}