Medics, medicines lacking in Central and North Darfur

The residents of Bindisi in Central Darfur and Shangil Tobaya in North Darfur are suffering from a lack of medical staff and affordable medicines.  

“Only some nurses and midwives are working in Bindisi hospital, after the only doctor and the medical assistant left last year,” a relative of a patient told Dabanga.

He complained that “the hospital is too small anyhow. There is only one ward, for both women and men”.

“There is also a severe shortage of medicines, and the prices of the medicines available are too high.”

He appealed to the federal authorities to provide medical personnel and medicines, and build a new ward to “separate the women from the men”.

In Shangil Tobaya, people also complain of a shortage of doctors and cheap medicines.

“Since the humanitarian organisations have been expelled from the region, health care is almost non-existent. People who can afford it, take their sick relatives to El Fasher and Nyala for treatment,” a listener in Shangil Tobaya explained to Dabanga.

“Yet, most people cannot afford to transport patients to places that far away.”