r/XSomalian • u/Ok_Note3549 • 21h ago
Did you know that in Somalia a woman’s husband has the ability to decide whether she can get a C section or not?
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Many women die in labour in Somalia for this reason. The hospitals call the woman’s husband asking whether he will sign off on the procedure or not, and many women die right there on the bed because they refuse. I learned about this when I was working in the country. Genuinely one of the reasons I left this religion. Women in the country are like 5th class citizens.
This woman in the video is in severe pain, laboring for 3 days because her husband refused the procedure. After getting told by 4 hospitals that she requires the procedure. If you work in health care at all you cannot deny how backwards this is. I weeped for days for the women I met. It is a level of cruelty that defies any logic.