Medical staff Hamidiya camp continue strike

26/09/2012 23:00

Around 45 employees, working for two international medical organizations at Hamidiya IDP camp in Central Darfur, engaged in an open strike on Wednesday September 19. The strike has entered its fifth day. The strike was organized as a protest against the non-payment of the employees’ salaries. The salaries amount to approximately 100,000 Sudanese pounds (SDG). Among those on strike are four medical assistants and eight nurses. The strike has led to a stop in receiving patients as well as to an increase of suffering for the camp’s residents. The camp offers refuge to approximately 68,000 displaced persons.A camp coordinator from Zalingei appealed to the medical organizations to solve the issue, emphasizing that the camp is witnessing a spread of diseases such as malaria. No free treatment for displaced womenOn the other hand, the coordinator complained to Radio Dabanga about the lack of free treatment, check-ups and obstretics operations for displaced women at the Grand Hospital of Zalingei.He appealed to the international bodies, which provide assistance to the Ministry of Health, to intervene and instruct the state’s authorities to provide free treatment for the displaced.

Around 45 employees, working for two international medical organizations at Hamidiya IDP camp in Central Darfur, engaged in an open strike on Wednesday September 19. The strike has entered its fifth day.

The strike was organized as a protest against the non-payment of the employees’ salaries. The salaries amount to approximately 100,000 Sudanese pounds (SDG). Among those on strike are four medical assistants and eight nurses.

The strike has led to a stop in receiving patients as well as to an increase of suffering for the camp’s residents. The camp offers refuge to approximately 68,000 displaced persons.

A camp coordinator from Zalingei appealed to the medical organizations to solve the issue, emphasizing that the camp is witnessing a spread of diseases such as malaria.

No free treatment for displaced women

On the other hand, the coordinator complained to Radio Dabanga about the lack of free treatment, check-ups and obstretics operations for displaced women at the Grand Hospital of Zalingei.

He appealed to the international bodies, which provide assistance to the Ministry of Health, to intervene and instruct the state’s authorities to provide free treatment for the displaced.