Girl dies from snake bite in South Darfur’s El Salam camp
A girl died in El Salam camp for the displaced in Nyala, South Darfur, due to a snake bite while she was helping her mother tend their farm on Saturday. Sheikh Mahjoub Adam Tabaldiya told Radio Dabanga that a people tried to save the life of Rashida Abdelmajeed Hamid Ishaq by immediately taking her to the camp health centre at about 6pm. However, the centre had closed at 4pm. Rashida died in front of the health centre. Tabaldiya complained that the camp lacks sufficient health care. “These days many camp residents suffer from diarrhoea, coughing, infections and also from tumours.”The sheikh demanded from the authorities to take urgent action and to provide medical services “as soon as possible”. File photo by Albert González Farran/Unamid Related: Health care and medicine shortage in Gereida camp, South Darfur (13 October 2013)Security and health disaster in North Darfur camps (25 September 2013)Birds threaten crops, health care shortage in South Darfur (21 October 2013)
A girl died in El Salam camp for the displaced in Nyala, South Darfur, due to a snake bite while she was helping her mother tend their farm on Saturday.
Sheikh Mahjoub Adam Tabaldiya told Radio Dabanga that a people tried to save the life of Rashida Abdelmajeed Hamid Ishaq by immediately taking her to the camp health centre at about 6pm. However, the centre had closed at 4pm. Rashida died in front of the health centre.
Tabaldiya complained that the camp lacks sufficient health care. “These days many camp residents suffer from diarrhoea, coughing, infections and also from tumours.”
The sheikh demanded from the authorities to take urgent action and to provide medical services “as soon as possible”.
File photo by Albert González Farran/Unamid
Related:
Health care and medicine shortage in Gereida camp, South Darfur (13 October 2013)
Security and health disaster in North Darfur camps (25 September 2013)
Birds threaten crops, health care shortage in South Darfur (21 October 2013)
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