Mahitaji ya makalio makubwa nchini Venezuela huenda yakasababisha matatizo makubwa kwani wanawake sasa wanalazimika kutumia hata ukarabati...
Mahitaji ya makalio makubwa nchini Venezuela huenda yakasababisha matatizo makubwa kwani wanawake sasa wanalazimika kutumia hata ukarabati ambao umekatazwa kwa sababu za kiafya.
Ukarabati huo ni wa kutumia sindano ambao umepigwa marufuku kutokana na madhara yake.
Kutokana na haja ya kuwa na makalio makubwa hata watu wenye nyadhifa zao wamekuwa wakijihusisha na juhudi za kuyatengeneza ili yapendeze na matokeo yake ni tafarani kwa baadhi yao.
Mwanasheria mmoja wa venezuella Denny amesema kwamba siku moja alipoamka akaona kalio lake moja limetuna kuliko jingine na hata bila kuelezwa alitambua kuwa ni athari ya vimiminika vya silikoni ambavyo amewekewa.
Kutuna huko kulikuwa sawa na mpira unaotumika kucheza soka chini ya kalio lake.Anasema maumivu yalikuwa makubwa yasiyoelezeka
Denny mwenye miaka 35 alikuwa amechoma sindano ya silikoni kwenye makalio yake ili kuyapa shepu kubwa zaidi.
Anasema kutokana na athari hizo hakuweza kutembea na mattzio yake ynayogisa uti wa mgongo yakaanzia palepale.
Uchomaji wa sindano za silikoni ni moja ya njia kadhaa zinazotumiwa na wanawake wa Venezuela kwa ajili ya kufanya matengenezo ya shepu ambayo jamii kwa sasa inahusudu kwamba ndiyo babu kubwa.
Matumizi ya sindano yalipigwa marufuku na serikali mwaka 2012, ikiwa ni miaka sita baada ya Denny kuchomwa.
Denny ambaye alichomwa sindano hizo ili kukuza makalio mwaka 2006 sasa anakabiliwa na athari kubwa za sindano hizo.
Pamoja na ukweli kuwa kuna athari zake, tabia ya kutumia sindano bado inaendelea na ukweli ni kuwa asilimia 30 ya wanawake kuanzia miaka 18 hadi 50 hucghagua kuchomwa sindano hizo.
Kwa mujibu wa chama cha upasuaji wa urembo wa Venezuela na hata wanaume nao hutumia sindano hizo ili kubusti pectoral muscles ingawa idadi yao ni ndogo.
dawa hizoz imetengenezwa kwa kutumia biopolymer silicone na kutokana na ukweli kuwa zinawezwa kuchomwa mahali popote katika mwili zinakuwa ni hatari zaidi kuliko vipandikizi ambako silicone gel inahifadhiwa katika kifuko husika.
Kinachofanya mtindo huu upendwe na watu ni ukweli kuwa ni rahisi kuliko kuwekwa vipandikizi. Sindano hii hugharimu bolivares (fedha za venezueala) 2000 (sawa na paundi 191 au dola 318) na shughuloi nzima haidizi dakika 20.
"kwa kuingizwa katika mfumo wa mwili, silikoni inaweza kjwenda mahali popote pale, haina mpaka. Mwili nao katika mfumo wake wa kujihami dhidi ya vitu visivyotakiwa mwilini unapochagiza huleta matatizo mengi," anasema Daniel Slobodianik,mtaalamu wa upasuaji wa kiurembo.
Walioathirika wanaweza kukabiliana na uc hovu usiokwisha au mzio wenye milipuko ya hapa na pale na kama kimiminika hicho kikahama upande mwingine kinaweza kuleta maumivu makali kwenye vifundo mbalimbali.
Japokama hakuna takwimu Chama cha wapasuaji nchini hapa kinasema kinaamini wanawake wengi hufa kila mwaka kutokana na matumizi ya sindano hizo.
Hitoilafu hiyo ikitokea mtu analazimika kwenda kwa wataalamu kwa ajili ya kuondoa tishu zilizoathirika.
Nchini humo kuna wataalamu wawili tu walioruhusiwa kufanyakazi hizo na mmojawapo ni dk Slobodianik .
Daktari huyo anasema ana orodha ndefu ya wagonjwa wanaohitaji msaada kutokana na kuathiriwa na sindani hizo.
Amesema orodha hiyo inawafanya wengine wakae kama mnwaka mzima.
Wengi wao wanashindwa kulipa gharama za marekebisho hayo kwani upasuaji peke yake hugharimu bolivares 60,000 .
sasa endelea kwa kizungu.
Hours before the delicate surgery, Denny explains that she prefers to withhold her full name because some of her family members don't know why she got ill.
They think she has a back problem - which is also what she thought for years, before the bump appeared.
She says she would have not taken the same decision if she had been aware of the risks.
Curvaceous shop mannequins with small waists Mannequins in Venezuela give an idea of the 'perfect' dimensions that many women aspire to
She describes the peer pressure that pushed her to get injected.
"There was a boom. In the office all the women had such nice buttocks. The last straw was when a judge I work with walked in, looking good. Her buttocks looked like two balloons, they were so beautiful," she says.
"I was never obsessed with perfect measurements, but then I let myself be dragged along by the idea that Venezuelan women should look like Barbie dolls."
Venezuelans have won Miss Universe seven times, giving the country a reputation as a factory of beauty queens.
"Self-esteem"
According to Carolina Vazquez Hernandez, a counsellor specialising in women's issues, societal pressure is huge here - even more so than in other countries.
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We Venezuelan women don't have a clear identity of our roots. Because of this lack of identity, our self-esteem is very weak, and we are able to subject ourselves to anything that will develop our self-esteem”
Carolina Vazquez Hernandez Counsellor, Aquamater Clinic, Caracas
"We Venezuelan women don't have a clear identity of our roots. Because of this lack of identity, our self-esteem is very weak, and we are able to subject ourselves to anything that will develop our self-esteem," says Ms Vazquez Hernandez.
Astrid de la Rosa agrees. She is one of the leading campaigners of the No to Biopolymers association, a non-profit organisation set up to offer support to victims of silicone injections.
She says she decided to undergo the procedure herself because her partner was about to leave her.
"I thought that a person will love you because of the way you look," she says.
Shortly after, she started feeling sick. Doctors said her immune system had been affected and diagnosed her with leukaemia.
The government ban on biopolymer injections was partly thanks to the work of the No to Biopolymer association.
But Ms de la Rosa says it is not enough.
"Where is the help for us?"
She says she still receives weekly calls from women who get injected, even though it is now illegal.
"It is not a matter or gender or social class. Women and men do it, there are politicians, actors that have done it," she says. "Where is the help for us?"
Doctor in scrubs holds out a phone with a picture of disfigured buttocks on the screen. Dr Slobodianik shows what can happen when buttock injections go wrong
While the government has banned biopolymer injections because of their health risk, insurance companies do not cover any costs for remedial treatment, because they don't recognise the side-effects of the injections as an illness.
Ms de la Rosa says her organisation often collects money to help victims pay for surgery.
Denny managed to finance the surgery with her own savings, but money is not on her mind at the moment.
Lying face down in her bed after the surgery, she knows it will take her three weeks until she has finally recovered, and the scar will remain forever.
She is also aware that the silicone may still affect her in the future.
However, she hopes that her tragic experience can at least serve as a warning for women considering having the injections - and help them learn to accept their bodies for what they are.
Ukarabati huo ni wa kutumia sindano ambao umepigwa marufuku kutokana na madhara yake.
Kutokana na haja ya kuwa na makalio makubwa hata watu wenye nyadhifa zao wamekuwa wakijihusisha na juhudi za kuyatengeneza ili yapendeze na matokeo yake ni tafarani kwa baadhi yao.
Mwanasheria mmoja wa venezuella Denny amesema kwamba siku moja alipoamka akaona kalio lake moja limetuna kuliko jingine na hata bila kuelezwa alitambua kuwa ni athari ya vimiminika vya silikoni ambavyo amewekewa.
Kutuna huko kulikuwa sawa na mpira unaotumika kucheza soka chini ya kalio lake.Anasema maumivu yalikuwa makubwa yasiyoelezeka
Denny mwenye miaka 35 alikuwa amechoma sindano ya silikoni kwenye makalio yake ili kuyapa shepu kubwa zaidi.
Anasema kutokana na athari hizo hakuweza kutembea na mattzio yake ynayogisa uti wa mgongo yakaanzia palepale.
Uchomaji wa sindano za silikoni ni moja ya njia kadhaa zinazotumiwa na wanawake wa Venezuela kwa ajili ya kufanya matengenezo ya shepu ambayo jamii kwa sasa inahusudu kwamba ndiyo babu kubwa.
Matumizi ya sindano yalipigwa marufuku na serikali mwaka 2012, ikiwa ni miaka sita baada ya Denny kuchomwa.
Denny ambaye alichomwa sindano hizo ili kukuza makalio mwaka 2006 sasa anakabiliwa na athari kubwa za sindano hizo.
Pamoja na ukweli kuwa kuna athari zake, tabia ya kutumia sindano bado inaendelea na ukweli ni kuwa asilimia 30 ya wanawake kuanzia miaka 18 hadi 50 hucghagua kuchomwa sindano hizo.
Kwa mujibu wa chama cha upasuaji wa urembo wa Venezuela na hata wanaume nao hutumia sindano hizo ili kubusti pectoral muscles ingawa idadi yao ni ndogo.
dawa hizoz imetengenezwa kwa kutumia biopolymer silicone na kutokana na ukweli kuwa zinawezwa kuchomwa mahali popote katika mwili zinakuwa ni hatari zaidi kuliko vipandikizi ambako silicone gel inahifadhiwa katika kifuko husika.
Kinachofanya mtindo huu upendwe na watu ni ukweli kuwa ni rahisi kuliko kuwekwa vipandikizi. Sindano hii hugharimu bolivares (fedha za venezueala) 2000 (sawa na paundi 191 au dola 318) na shughuloi nzima haidizi dakika 20.
"kwa kuingizwa katika mfumo wa mwili, silikoni inaweza kjwenda mahali popote pale, haina mpaka. Mwili nao katika mfumo wake wa kujihami dhidi ya vitu visivyotakiwa mwilini unapochagiza huleta matatizo mengi," anasema Daniel Slobodianik,mtaalamu wa upasuaji wa kiurembo.
Walioathirika wanaweza kukabiliana na uc hovu usiokwisha au mzio wenye milipuko ya hapa na pale na kama kimiminika hicho kikahama upande mwingine kinaweza kuleta maumivu makali kwenye vifundo mbalimbali.
Japokama hakuna takwimu Chama cha wapasuaji nchini hapa kinasema kinaamini wanawake wengi hufa kila mwaka kutokana na matumizi ya sindano hizo.
Hitoilafu hiyo ikitokea mtu analazimika kwenda kwa wataalamu kwa ajili ya kuondoa tishu zilizoathirika.
Nchini humo kuna wataalamu wawili tu walioruhusiwa kufanyakazi hizo na mmojawapo ni dk Slobodianik .
Daktari huyo anasema ana orodha ndefu ya wagonjwa wanaohitaji msaada kutokana na kuathiriwa na sindani hizo.
Amesema orodha hiyo inawafanya wengine wakae kama mnwaka mzima.
Wengi wao wanashindwa kulipa gharama za marekebisho hayo kwani upasuaji peke yake hugharimu bolivares 60,000 .
sasa endelea kwa kizungu.
Hours before the delicate surgery, Denny explains that she prefers to withhold her full name because some of her family members don't know why she got ill.
They think she has a back problem - which is also what she thought for years, before the bump appeared.
She says she would have not taken the same decision if she had been aware of the risks.
Curvaceous shop mannequins with small waists Mannequins in Venezuela give an idea of the 'perfect' dimensions that many women aspire to
She describes the peer pressure that pushed her to get injected.
"There was a boom. In the office all the women had such nice buttocks. The last straw was when a judge I work with walked in, looking good. Her buttocks looked like two balloons, they were so beautiful," she says.
"I was never obsessed with perfect measurements, but then I let myself be dragged along by the idea that Venezuelan women should look like Barbie dolls."
Venezuelans have won Miss Universe seven times, giving the country a reputation as a factory of beauty queens.
"Self-esteem"
According to Carolina Vazquez Hernandez, a counsellor specialising in women's issues, societal pressure is huge here - even more so than in other countries.
Continue reading the main story
“Start Quote
We Venezuelan women don't have a clear identity of our roots. Because of this lack of identity, our self-esteem is very weak, and we are able to subject ourselves to anything that will develop our self-esteem”
Carolina Vazquez Hernandez Counsellor, Aquamater Clinic, Caracas
"We Venezuelan women don't have a clear identity of our roots. Because of this lack of identity, our self-esteem is very weak, and we are able to subject ourselves to anything that will develop our self-esteem," says Ms Vazquez Hernandez.
Astrid de la Rosa agrees. She is one of the leading campaigners of the No to Biopolymers association, a non-profit organisation set up to offer support to victims of silicone injections.
She says she decided to undergo the procedure herself because her partner was about to leave her.
"I thought that a person will love you because of the way you look," she says.
Shortly after, she started feeling sick. Doctors said her immune system had been affected and diagnosed her with leukaemia.
The government ban on biopolymer injections was partly thanks to the work of the No to Biopolymer association.
But Ms de la Rosa says it is not enough.
"Where is the help for us?"
She says she still receives weekly calls from women who get injected, even though it is now illegal.
"It is not a matter or gender or social class. Women and men do it, there are politicians, actors that have done it," she says. "Where is the help for us?"
Doctor in scrubs holds out a phone with a picture of disfigured buttocks on the screen. Dr Slobodianik shows what can happen when buttock injections go wrong
While the government has banned biopolymer injections because of their health risk, insurance companies do not cover any costs for remedial treatment, because they don't recognise the side-effects of the injections as an illness.
Ms de la Rosa says her organisation often collects money to help victims pay for surgery.
Denny managed to finance the surgery with her own savings, but money is not on her mind at the moment.
Lying face down in her bed after the surgery, she knows it will take her three weeks until she has finally recovered, and the scar will remain forever.
She is also aware that the silicone may still affect her in the future.
However, she hopes that her tragic experience can at least serve as a warning for women considering having the injections - and help them learn to accept their bodies for what they are.
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