 Well, at least 38 women have benefited from a medical outreach by a non-governmental organization in partnership with the United Nations Population Fund. They received free visco vaginal fistula VVF surgery in Yola, Adamawa state, as our correspondents now report. These women are now free from a distressing health condition. It's an opening between the female vagina and bladder known as vesicle vaginal fistulas or VVF. The successful surgery is a courtesy of the Fistula Foundation Nigeria, FFN, and the United Nations Population Fund. The lead surgeon of the program, Dr. Saeed Idris, describes it as successful. As you can see, we are targeting a 50-reface, inshallah, which we hope by Friday 50 women will be able to have the surgery done successfully. Then after the surgery, we are going to follow this woman up to six weeks to ensure that none of them is leaking urine and are discharged home successfully. The FFN director, Musa Issa, explains more about the program. One thing I must comment on is that they are very determined and the other women want to continue because they have the patient at heart. They want to see this woman, the woman, not only for her who is a woman, but for the rest of the team who are members of the team for women. Vaginal fistula means it's a communication between the bladder, that's the vesicle that we are talking about. Vagina is the vagina, we all know that. Vaginal fistula is a communication between the bladder and the vagina. Because there is communication, there are good neighbors. The barrier that has separated them has gone off because of obstruction, prejio on the tissues that can cut off blood supply. The blood supply is cut off, it can die and slough off. Nigeria has the highest prevalence of vesicle vaginal fistulas, VVF in the world, between 400,000 and 800,000 women live with this challenge and about 20,000 new cases occur annually. 90% of those cases go untreated, but thanks to this program, these women have a different story. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.