Woman delivers stone in Adamawa

A 25-year-old woman in a remote village of Yolde Pate in Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa State on Tuesday delivered a sizeable stone.
Madam Amina Bello of Unguwar Jalo village narrated her story at the opening ceremony of Vesico Vaginal Fistula free medical treatment in Yola Specialists Hospital.
Bello, who was also a VVF patient, told the gathering that after four years pregnancy, she finally delivered a sizeable stone last year.
She said: “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.
“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.”
Bello said that it was after the delivery she now discovered that she was affected with VVF.
Responding, Dr. Sunday Lengmang, Director VVF Centre, Jos, Plateau State confirmed that giving birth to a stone or any object was possible.
Lengmang was in Yola to attend to the VVF patients for one week.
He said: “Stones and other solid objects can form in a human body in different cases.
“Stones can form in a gall bladder, urinary bladder and other several parts of urinary tracks.”
The medical expert explained that women that had VVF were easily and normal to get forms in their placentas.
He said while VVF patients were prone to giving birth to stones or any solid object was because they drink less water to reduce urine leakage.
Lengmang said as a result of taking less water, their urine become concentrated.
He said: “Inside urine, there is salt, sodium and chlorine and when the urine becomes concentrated, the salt now crystallised and finally form itself and later end up as stone.”
Lengmang confirmed that three VVF patients had stones in their placentas and they would go under 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.
Earlier, the wife of the Governor, Dr. Halima Nyako, said the medical treatment was free and that over 150 women benefited in 2013.
Nyako said that the state government would establish a centre where VVF patients would be giving free treatment.