Giving back is good for business

Following  last year’s Expert View on Astellas Pharma Europe’s Action on Fistula program, Christina Chale (pictured above, center), the company’s corporate communications director, writes about her visit to Kenya to see what difference is being made to the lives of women with obstetric fistula and how the program is delivering business as well as societal benefits.

“You have given us back our dignity.”

These words were spoken to us by Sarah Omega Kidangasi, an outreach worker who had received reconstructive surgery for obstetric fistula at the Gynocare Women’s and Fistula Hospital.