Dignity-centered care

For three years she rarely left her home, avoiding neighbors and market days because of a condition no one had explained to her.

A community mobiliser visiting her village told her the surgery — and everything around it — was free.

She had stopped working her farm, certain nothing could be done and unwilling to travel far from home to find out.

Her local health center referred her directly to Surgical Centre Mbarara, with transport arranged the same week.

Embarrassed by her condition, she had missed her own sister's wedding rather than risk being seen.

She called the program hotline after hearing a radio spot about free fistula care.