Impact report: March - June 2024
March 05, 2025
We’re delighted to share the latest Treatment Impact report with you, showing the surgical outcomes achieved by the dedicated clinical team at Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia from March to June 2024.
Hamlin’s Mekele Fistula Hospital has the highest number of surgeries of all Hamlin’s hospitals, performing 427 life-changing surgeries from March to June.
Thanks to your support of our Raise2Restore Giving Day in August 2023, a second operating theatre was opened and has helped to increase the number of women urgently needing surgery after the civil war.
The ongoing conflict in the Amhara region is compromising the number of surgeries being performed at Hamlin’s Bahir Dar Fistula Hospital during this reporting period. Patients have been unable to come to the hospital for treatment and travel has been restricted for Hamlin’s Patient Identification officers searching for women with untreated fistula injuries.
Hamlin’s Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital performs surgery on the most complex childbirth injuries, which consume more time and resources.
Thank you for your ongoing support of women with childbirth injuries in Ethiopia.
Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Elders past, present and emerging throughout Australia and the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Traditional Owners of the land and waterways on which our Australian office is situated. We acknowledge the many ethnic groups in Ethiopia and their ancestral and cultural connection to the land where our work is undertaken.