It seems extraordinary that 2021 marks two decades since Catherine Hamlin’s book The Hospital by the River was published, introducing millions in the West to the distressing realities of obstetric fistula.
The author of A Doctor in Africa, Andrew Browning, has followed in Dr Hamlin’s footsteps as a compassionate champion of the women, communities and nations in need of better access to maternity services so debilitating fistulae can be cured – or prevented from occurring in the first place.
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