Woman Gives Birth To Stone In Yola [Photo]

Amina Bello, 25-year old woman in Yolde Pate in Yola South LGA of

Adamawa State, on Tuesday, delivered a sizable stone. Bello narrated

her story at the opening ceremony of Vesico vaginal fistula (VVF)

free medical treatment in Yola Specialists Hospital. Bello, who is

also a VVF patient, told the gathering that after four years

pregnancy, she finally delivered a sizable stone last year.

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"I was holding a pregnancy for the duration of four years, which I

bitterly suffered because of the heavy weight of what is contained in

the stomach," she said. "It was last year around June, I started

feeling labour and I was in that condition for three days and finally

I delivered a stone."

She said that it was after the delivery she now discovered that she

was affected with VVF. Responding, Dr Sunday Lengmang, Director VVF

Centre, Jos, confirmed that giving birth to a stone or any object was

possible.

Lengmang was in Yola to attain to the VVF patients for the duration of

one week .

"Stones and other solid objects can form in a human body in different

cases," he said. "Stones can form in a gall bladder, urinary bladder

and other several parts of urinary tracks."

The medical expert explained that why VVF patients were prone to

giving birth to stones or any solid object was because they drink less

water to reduce urine leakage.

He said as a result of taking less water their urine become concentrated.

"Inside urine, there is salt, sodium and chlorine, and when the urine

becomes concentrated, the salt becomes crystallised and finally forms

itself and later ends up as stone," he said.

Lengmang confirmed that three VVF patients had stones in their

placentas and they would undergo surgery.

He said the size of the stones uncovered from the three women was six

by seven and three by four centimetres.

Lengmang advised VVF patients to drink more water instead of taking

less to prevent them from risk of having stones