Health care and medicine shortage in Gereida camp, South Darfur
Residents of Gireida camp for the displaced in South Darfur complain about a lack of health care and high mortality figures caused by malnutrition and diseases such as malaria, diarrhoea and typhoid. Sources told Radio Dabanga that between four and six displaced people die every week, most of them women and children, owing to a shortage of medicines and a lack of health care.The hospital of Gereida has not carried out an operation for five months because of a lack of staff and medical equipment. The only medical personnel currently present at the hospital are nurses and midwives. The sources demanded that the authorities and aid organisations intervene to provide health care in order to save the lives of the camp residents. File photo: Related: WHO: Child mortality from malnutrition reaches 40% in Sudan (23 September 2013) Malnutrition kills 10 children in Central Darfur (2 September 2013) OCHA boss: Sudan malnutrition rate above emergency threshold (16 August 2013)
Residents of Gireida camp for the displaced in South Darfur complain about a lack of health care and high mortality figures caused by malnutrition and diseases such as malaria, diarrhoea and typhoid.
Sources told Radio Dabanga that between four and six displaced people die every week, most of them women and children, owing to a shortage of medicines and a lack of health care.
The hospital of Gereida has not carried out an operation for five months because of a lack of staff and medical equipment. The only medical personnel currently present at the hospital are nurses and midwives.
The sources demanded that the authorities and aid organisations intervene to provide health care in order to save the lives of the camp residents.
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Related:
WHO: Child mortality from malnutrition reaches 40% in Sudan (23 September 2013)
Malnutrition kills 10 children in Central Darfur (2 September 2013)
OCHA boss: Sudan malnutrition rate above emergency threshold (16 August 2013)
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