Health care crisis deepens in Tawila, North Darfur
Residents of Tawila locality in North Darfur have complained anew about the absence of medical treatment and lack of medicines after the only organisation working in the region, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) withdrew from the locality two weeks ago. A resident told Radio Dabanga that there are more than 500 pregnant women in the area who will deliver soon and are in urgent need of health care. Around 400 of them are living in the three Tawila camps for the displaced. He also reported that the health condition of dozens of patients, most of them children, the frail and elder persons, has worsened since MSF left the region. The residents currently only receive first aid treatment from Unamid. They have repeated their request to the North Darfur state authorities to urgently find a solution for the lack of health care facilities and medicines, and also appealed to MSF to return to the region.As reported previously by Radio Dabanga, the unstable security situation in Darfur has prompted many humanitarian relief NGOs to reduce their operations within the camps for the displaced. For example, the compound of MSF in Tawila locality has reportedly been attacked twice in the past weeks. File photo (MSF) Related: ‘Darfur’s Tawila faces health care crisis as clinic closes’: Sheikh (5 September 2013)
Residents of Tawila locality in North Darfur have complained anew about the absence of medical treatment and lack of medicines after the only organisation working in the region, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) withdrew from the locality two weeks ago.
A resident told Radio Dabanga that there are more than 500 pregnant women in the area who will deliver soon and are in urgent need of health care. Around 400 of them are living in the three Tawila camps for the displaced. He also reported that the health condition of dozens of patients, most of them children, the frail and elder persons, has worsened since MSF left the region.
The residents currently only receive first aid treatment from Unamid. They have repeated their request to the North Darfur state authorities to urgently find a solution for the lack of health care facilities and medicines, and also appealed to MSF to return to the region.
As reported previously by Radio Dabanga, the unstable security situation in Darfur has prompted many humanitarian relief NGOs to reduce their operations within the camps for the displaced. For example, the compound of MSF in Tawila locality has reportedly been attacked twice in the past weeks.
File photo (MSF)
Related: ‘Darfur’s Tawila faces health care crisis as clinic closes’: Sheikh (5 September 2013)
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