Teaching hospital in North Darfur’s capital ‘overcrowded’

04/02/2014 19:01

Patients and their relatives in North Darfur have complained of the lack of wards in the El Fasher Teaching Hospital, especially in the children’s department. Speaking to Radio Dabanga, a relative of one of the patients said that the wards in the El Fasher Teaching Hospital are overcrowded. In the children’s department at least two children have to share one bed. The relative also complained of a lack of medicines, and medical specialists. The North Darfur Minister of Health, Abu Abbas Abdallah Tayeb Jido has acknowledged that “there is a bottleneck in the hospital”, adding that they are preparing a “vertical expansion and reconstruction of the hospital as well as of some other health facilities”. File photo: A room in the El Fasher Teaching Hospital (Albert Gonzalez Farran/Unamid)

Patients and their relatives in North Darfur have complained of the lack of wards in the El Fasher Teaching Hospital, especially in the children’s department.

Speaking to Radio Dabanga, a relative of one of the patients said that the wards in the El Fasher Teaching Hospital are overcrowded. In the children’s department at least two children have to share one bed. The relative also complained of a lack of medicines, and medical specialists.

The North Darfur Minister of Health, Abu Abbas Abdallah Tayeb Jido has acknowledged that “there is a bottleneck in the hospital”, adding that they are preparing a “vertical expansion and reconstruction of the hospital as well as of some other health facilities”.

File photo: A room in the El Fasher Teaching Hospital (Albert Gonzalez Farran/Unamid)