By Sony Valentino, South Sudan.
When visiting a fertility clinic in Brædstrup yesterday I realized that having a child is not something to do with man and woman alone but we can get children also by machines and this can help people who are not able to get babies by themselves. According to own thought I was thinking women alone con not make babies but I was suppress to hear that the Danish Government can allow two ladies to be to gather as couples but they can still have a child if they want to and its by use of the machines i.e. artificial insemination.
I also came to learn that I can still get a child when getting old. The doctor was able to tell us clearly the reason why many Danish women delay to have a child. They want to achieve certain goal in life before having a baby. For example they want to complete their education, have a car and many other things that the Danish people think it is good to have them first then one can have a child after. In south Sudan women often have children from the age of 16. `
However in south Sudan many women often have some biological problems that they cannot get babies by themselves. Such kind of women end up with stress because there is no fertility clinic found in south Sudan were one can get a baby. In south Sudan if a woman is not able to get a baby, she is always in trouble were she will be despised in the family, the husband will divorce her and the in lows will also stigmatize her for not having a child – they will say you are eating our food for nothing and yet you were here to multiply the number of our family. Some of these women do not feel good because they are over looked. But in Denmark sperms are kept in class containers that the doctor who works in the fertility clinic can be able to make babies for those who cannot make by themselves, this has surprised me.
Although there are women who goes to antenatal clinic, but the quality is not like what happens in Denmark.
Therefore the health care in Denmark is for everybody regardless of being poor or rich.
Among the participants who came from different developing countries in Africa, one of the lady from Zambia is pregnant so she was able to see her baby in the scan machines in the fertility hospital in Denmark.
Women in south Sudan have big problems in the presses of laborer even if they can get babies by themselves.