No health care in Central Darfur’s Mukjar

Mukjar locality in Central Darfur lacks any form of basic health care service. Within the past four months, 15 people died of an unknown liver disease. Speaking to Radio Dabanga from Mukjar town, an activist said that the about 90,000 people living in the locality do not have access to any medical care. “There are not even medical assistants anymore; the last one left in March.” He appealed to the Central Darfur State government to “immediately send a doctor to Mukjar”. He also called on the authorities to urgently dispatch a medical team to diagnose a “mysterious liver disease that caused the death of 15 people so far” in Mukjar locality. The activist reported too that four militiamen on Sunday evening pillaged the shop of Adam Ismail Adam in the eastern part of Mukjar town. “The gunmen first secured the street, before they emptied the entire shop, loaded the goods in their vehicle, and fled.” File photo: A doctor checks an infant at a Zamzam camp clinic, North Darfur (Albert González Farran/ Unamid)