By PETER OKUTU

ABAKALIKI-THE National Vesico Vaginal Fistula Centre in Ebonyi State weekend, treated and discharged 60 patients from South South, South East, North Central and South West geopolitical zones of the country.

The patients who thanked God for delivering them from the scourge of obstetric fistula having suffered alienation from their families, were given bags of rice, wrappers, and cash by the Centre to enable them start up a new lease of life.

At the occasion, wife of the state governor of the state, Mrs. Josephine Elechi, urged them to make conscious effort to abstain from sexual intercourse with their husbands to allow for healing of the repaired parts of their bodies.

Mrs Elechi who spoke through the wife of the Deputy Governor, Mrs. Rachael Umahi, urged the women to remain good ambassadors of the centre by educating both urban and rural women on the dangers of obstetric fistula and possibility of being treated even as she charged them to be committed to the intake of their drugs as prescribed by the doctor.

In her remarks, Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs. Chinyere Anioke stated that majority of women brought to the Centre for treatment had suffered different forms of segregation from their people adding that the centre had helped to restore the dignity of women across the country.