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Woman dumped over birth control method
09 May 2015 at 17:32hrs | Views
ADOPTING a family planning method without her husband's knowledge resulted in a Buhera woman being dumped at Sakubva Main Bus Terminus with her three minor kids on Sunday afternoon.
The thought of not having more kids saw Mike Dhaka (32) of Chipere Village in Buhera going to extremes and forcibly took his family to Mutare where he vanished into thin air, leaving his young children exposed to the vagaries of the winter weather.
Narrating her sad ordeal to The Manica Post on Wednesday, Mary Maradzika (28), who had to find temporary shelter at Mutare Rural Police Station for two consecutive nights, said the whole drama was caused by the surgery that she had undergone on March 3.
After having three caesarean section surgeries, her fallopian tubes were tied and cut.
Maradzika said her husband had only got to know of the operation when he visited their rural home from his Mutare base. Dhaka is employed as a mechanic.
"I have had three caesarean operations for the three children I have given birth to. When I gave birth to the last baby, the doctors said I should have my fallopian tubes tied because the caesarean section operations were soon becoming a danger to my life," she cried as she narrated her ordeal.
"I refused to have the operation done fearing my husband's wrath. I asked for other options, but doctors at Murambinda Mission Hospital could not have any of my explanations insisting that it was better to save my life than continue being a child bearing machine. The doctors told me that a lot of women were dying because of exceeding three caesarean operations in their lives.
"My mother-in-law, Ms Esnath Tururu urged them to tie my fallopian tubes for the good of my health. She even signed as a witness before I was operated on," cried Maradzika.
Trouble, however, struck when Dhaka came home to see his newly born baby last week.
She alleged that Dhaka became furious when he was told about the development.
"Dhaka shouted at his mother saying he was the one who had paid my bride price and no one else. He told his mother that she had no right to act as a witness to my operation. My husband said he still wanted more children and that he had married me to have children," she remarked.
Tururu is said to have asked her daughter-in-law to accompany her husband to Mutare since they did not know where he worked or where he stayed in the city.
When they arrived in Mutare on Sunday, Dhaka disappeared with some of her bags and her phone.
"He asked me to wait for him and he went away with some of my bags and my phone. That was the last time we saw him," she cried.
Good Samaritans offered her a phone to call Dhaka, but his phone was switched off and he could not be reached on Whatsapp till she was taken to Mutare Rural Police Station where she was given shelter for two nights before she approached the Ministry of Social Welfare.
The troubled woman later got help from The Manica Post staff which donated money for her fare back to Buhera after The Ministry of Social Welfare said they did not have travel passes at that moment.
The thought of not having more kids saw Mike Dhaka (32) of Chipere Village in Buhera going to extremes and forcibly took his family to Mutare where he vanished into thin air, leaving his young children exposed to the vagaries of the winter weather.
Narrating her sad ordeal to The Manica Post on Wednesday, Mary Maradzika (28), who had to find temporary shelter at Mutare Rural Police Station for two consecutive nights, said the whole drama was caused by the surgery that she had undergone on March 3.
After having three caesarean section surgeries, her fallopian tubes were tied and cut.
Maradzika said her husband had only got to know of the operation when he visited their rural home from his Mutare base. Dhaka is employed as a mechanic.
"I have had three caesarean operations for the three children I have given birth to. When I gave birth to the last baby, the doctors said I should have my fallopian tubes tied because the caesarean section operations were soon becoming a danger to my life," she cried as she narrated her ordeal.
"I refused to have the operation done fearing my husband's wrath. I asked for other options, but doctors at Murambinda Mission Hospital could not have any of my explanations insisting that it was better to save my life than continue being a child bearing machine. The doctors told me that a lot of women were dying because of exceeding three caesarean operations in their lives.
"My mother-in-law, Ms Esnath Tururu urged them to tie my fallopian tubes for the good of my health. She even signed as a witness before I was operated on," cried Maradzika.
Trouble, however, struck when Dhaka came home to see his newly born baby last week.
She alleged that Dhaka became furious when he was told about the development.
"Dhaka shouted at his mother saying he was the one who had paid my bride price and no one else. He told his mother that she had no right to act as a witness to my operation. My husband said he still wanted more children and that he had married me to have children," she remarked.
Tururu is said to have asked her daughter-in-law to accompany her husband to Mutare since they did not know where he worked or where he stayed in the city.
When they arrived in Mutare on Sunday, Dhaka disappeared with some of her bags and her phone.
"He asked me to wait for him and he went away with some of my bags and my phone. That was the last time we saw him," she cried.
Good Samaritans offered her a phone to call Dhaka, but his phone was switched off and he could not be reached on Whatsapp till she was taken to Mutare Rural Police Station where she was given shelter for two nights before she approached the Ministry of Social Welfare.
The troubled woman later got help from The Manica Post staff which donated money for her fare back to Buhera after The Ministry of Social Welfare said they did not have travel passes at that moment.
Source - manicapost
