Drug Shortage Hits Malakal Teaching Hospital Drug shortage has hit Malakal Teaching Hospital, the main health facility in Upper Nile State, an official said. 29 January 2014
By Jok P Mayom *JUBA, 29 January 2014 [Gurtong] - *The Upper Nile State Minster of Information Philip Jiben told Gurtong that Malakal Teaching Hospital has only 50 percent of the required drugs to keep saving lives of people which have been compounded by the injuries sustained during the recent fighting between government and anti-government forces there. "Thousands of people who sought refuge in the hospital including the sick and wounded are in need of urgent medical and food assistance," said Jiben. According to Jiben, the hospital is full of people with a total estimate of about 700 people both seeking refuge and the wounded. "This needs the intervention from the national government and international organizations to rescue the situation because the hospital is totally full of people. Some of them are sick and others seeking protection here," said the minister. Jiben called on Non-governmental Organizations (NGO) and state health personnel to come back to administer the health services patients expect from them. He urged humanitarian agencies to intervene in providing drugs to hospital so that the sick and wounded can be treated. The minister said the situation is still deplorable as dead bodies still lie around the hospital. Medicines Sans Frontieres (MSF) also known as the doctors without borders pulled out of the place during the peak of the fighting there but have now said they are set to resume normal work in the hospital. On January 18th 2014, MSF reported in a statement that armed men entered their compound on two occasions looting properties and physically threatening their staff. MSF's Emergency Coordinator Louisa Markening earlier told reporters, they had evacuated their staff from Malakal town to the UN compound in Malakal. "We normally do not do (evacuate) that because we are separating our activity from any armed group but we had no other option this time," said MSF. Posted in: Home<http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/CategoryView/mid/519/categoryId/1/Home.aspx> , Health<http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/CategoryView/mid/519/categoryId/7/Health.aspx> -- 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]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14oqS%3D6SxpdBmQi854%3D03Ytkrrnm-AbWdrQWp7YPZSvjp3g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
