Seventeen-year-old Gani Adan not only lost her baby, but was divorced by her husband, and scorned cruelly by her neighbours for 10 months whilst she suffered incontinence resulting from her traumatic first childbirth experience.
After being in labour for three days, the traditional midwives attending to her forcefully pulled the dead baby from Gani’s womb, rupturing her bladder.
“When I suffered this problem, I fell into shock. My husband couldn’t bear to be with me so that was how I was divorced. People used to gossip about my condition, they would say that this girl can’t hold back her urine and that is why she was divorced,” she said.
On 30 November, Gani received free fistula surgery in Luq mother and child hospital in Gedo. Recuperating in bed, she recalled that the reason her husband left her was her bed wetting.
“Urine was flowing when I was brought here. I received free medicine that has improved my condition. I also underwent free surgery. Now, I am 100 per cent healthy,” she said
Fadumo Warow Hassan suffered from fistula for 14 months. She was forced to shut down her tea shop in Ceeldhanaaw village in October 2020, fearing that people would get to know of her condition.
“Only my parents and our family knew about my suffering, I hid it from the rest of the people fearing they would gossip about me, so I stayed home. My urine was flowing, so how can you work if you wet the chair you’re sitting on?” she asked.
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After being in labour for three days, the traditional midwives attending to her forcefully pulled the dead baby from Gani’s womb, rupturing her bladder.
“When I suffered this problem, I fell into shock. My husband couldn’t bear to be with me so that was how I was divorced. People used to gossip about my condition, they would say that this girl can’t hold back her urine and that is why she was divorced,” she said.
On 30 November, Gani received free fistula surgery in Luq mother and child hospital in Gedo. Recuperating in bed, she recalled that the reason her husband left her was her bed wetting.
“Urine was flowing when I was brought here. I received free medicine that has improved my condition. I also underwent free surgery. Now, I am 100 per cent healthy,” she said
Fadumo Warow Hassan suffered from fistula for 14 months. She was forced to shut down her tea shop in Ceeldhanaaw village in October 2020, fearing that people would get to know of her condition.
“Only my parents and our family knew about my suffering, I hid it from the rest of the people fearing they would gossip about me, so I stayed home. My urine was flowing, so how can you work if you wet the chair you’re sitting on?” she asked.

Somali teenager divorced by husband for bedwetting after brutal childbirth
Seventeen-year-old Gani Adan not only lost her baby, but was divorced by her husband, and scorned cruelly by her neighbours for 10 months whilst she suffered incontinence resulting from her traumatic first childbirth experience.