194 - Transforming women’s urological health in Uganda

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Dr Namugga Martha Monicah is one of four female urologists in Uganda. She recently completed the Fellowship of the College of Surgeons (FCS) exam at the College of Surgeons East and Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA) exams, finishing top of her class. She was supported with a sponsorship from Newson Health. This episode of the podcast, released on the eve of International Women’s Day which this year centres around equity for all, looks at women’s health and access to care in Africa. Dr Monicah tells Dr Louise Newson about the barriers to women’s health in Africa, the shame surrounding it and the international support making a difference. She also addresses the stigma around the menopause and the need to move past a ‘suffer in silence’ approach. Guest’s three tips: Anyone in the world who listens to the podcast, know that there is somewhere where menopause doesn’t have to be taken on humbly and that something can be done to improve your quality of life. To the African girl child, know that despite all the challenges, the hurdles, you can still do it, you can still emerge victorious. In whatever small way, any individual can do something to improve the life of another. For more about Dr Namugga Martha Monciah, visit https://www.baus.org.uk/professionals/urolink/urolink_home.aspx.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Louise Newsome and welcome to my podcast. I'm a GP and menopause specialist and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre here in Stratford-Bron-Avon. I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity and the Menopause support app called Balance.
0:29.9	On the podcast, I will be joined each week by an exciting guest to help provide evidence-based
0:36.5	information and advice about both the perimenopause and the
0:40.9	menopause.
0:45.6	On the podcast today, I've got somebody who's not in the UK and someone in a country that I've
0:51.5	not spoken to before on my podcast. So it's someone called Martha,
0:55.6	who's a urologist in Uganda. And some of you might know that my husband has done some work
1:01.5	in Africa. He's a urologist, but he doesn't specialize in women, actually. He specialises in
1:06.9	men and male reconstructive surgery. So Martha was introduced to me recently and as a company,
1:13.1	we've sponsored her for her final exams and we'll talk about how well she did in a minute.
1:18.4	So welcome Martha to this podcast. Thank you, Dr. Newsom. Great to be here.
1:24.4	Oh, no, it's brilliant. So you are incredibly inspirational. There aren't many female
1:30.5	urologists over where you are. So can you just tell me a bit about you and why you decided to do
1:36.6	urology? Well, my name is Martha. I'm aga, Monica. I'm 34 years old.
1:44.9	I'm a wife and a mother of two sons.
1:47.2	And I was a general surgeon first before I ventured into urology.
1:51.8	There is nothing so special.
1:53.3	I didn't have any touching story behind my choice of urology.
1:56.6	It just happened to be one of the rotations that I enjoyed fully.
2:00.3	And I found the urologies
2:02.4	quite inspiring. And then I also had a dream of helping, you know, women with fistula in Uganda.
2:11.0	So, and urology was amends to that. Wow. Yeah. So I ended up choosing urology after my general
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