Darfuri refugees severely lacking medical treatment in eastern Chad
Darfuri refugees in eastern Chad are severely lacking access to desperately needed medical treatment. ‘When they arrive at Abeche hospital there is often a wait of up to two weeks to see a doctor, patients are exposed to the heat, moving from tree to tree to try to find some shade’, said Abdul Gadir Abdel Rahman a refugee at the camp. ‘There is another problem with communication as the doctors speak French and English, there are no translators to talk to the Darfuri patients’, added Abdel Rahman. UNHCR reportedly allocated three people to assist the refugees with medicine and expenses, but the headquarters of those people was never known. The accumulation of these circumstances is leading to many people dying at the hospital. Bodies end up piled up for hours and sometimes days waiting to be buried, said Abdel Rahman.
Darfuri refugees in eastern Chad are severely lacking access to desperately needed medical treatment.
‘When they arrive at Abeche hospital there is often a wait of up to two weeks to see a doctor, patients are exposed to the heat, moving from tree to tree to try to find some shade’, said Abdul Gadir Abdel Rahman a refugee at the camp.
‘There is another problem with communication as the doctors speak French and English, there are no translators to talk to the Darfuri patients’, added Abdel Rahman.
UNHCR reportedly allocated three people to assist the refugees with medicine and expenses, but the headquarters of those people was never known.
The accumulation of these circumstances is leading to many people dying at the hospital. Bodies end up piled up for hours and sometimes days waiting to be buried, said Abdel Rahman.
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