Medical Outreach Service Launched In Torit Doctors on Move (DOM), a national Non Governmental Organization (NGO), has this morning launched its outreach medical service in Torit, Eastern Equatoria State.
15 April 2013 By Peter Lokale Nakimangole TORIT, 15 April 2013 [Gurtong] – Speaking to Gurtong shortly after the launch at Torit State Hospital, the State Health Ministry Director General, Dr. Elijo Omoro Tahir said he welcomed and appreciated the commitment by DOM to put resources, time and energy in the program only to help the citizens. He disclosed that the team is composed of three specialists plus a back up team of several young doctors and they are led by the DOM President Dr. Fredrick Khamis who doubles as a Consultant Surgeon. The MOD aim is to extend its medical outreach program to the people of Eastern Equatoria State in Torit . Last month, the Doctors on Move visited Torit with its medical outreach program and met with the State Minister of Health Dr. Margaret Itto Leonardo. The NGO is strongly committed to offering its secondary medical service to the people in South Sudan and have just started with Torit as the first launch of the outreach program. The MOD President’s Khamis further reiterated his NGO commitment to supporting the population to ensure the upcoming medical outreach service program and include a signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the state authorities to officially enable them launch the program. Among other services, the DOM team is going to offer include free surgical operations, medical trainings and consultations. “We have just come to prepare the ground to start the work; we are going to offer free services such as surgical operations, medical trainings and consultations among others. We want the entire Torit residents, more importantly the people of Eastern Equatoria State, to turn up for the services expected to be offered,” the leader told Gurtong earlier. The team leader revealed that they will conduct a five-day outreach medical service at the Torit State Hospital to enhance the Hospital service by helping the existing manpower to deliver better. The visiting team informed Gurtong that once they were done with all official arrangements with the state officials they would then go back so to come with a supplementary team plus medical equipment. The upcoming team would comprise of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists, Paediatricians, Nurses, Assistant Anaesthetists and medical officers. The NGO gets its funding from individual donations and most of its donations mainly come from Gudele Medical and Surgeon Home, a Juba based private hospital. Posted in: Home, Governance, Health -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
