Four Central Darfur hospitals closed this year
Four hospitals have closed their doors this year in Central Darfur, while the need for medical care is rapidly increasing in the area. “The hospitals of Mukjar, Um Shalia, Bindisi, and Deleig were closed in the course of the current year, while more and more people in Central Darfur, and in particular the displaced, are in urgent need of medical care. Many suffer from malaria, fistula, fevers, diarrhoea, and malnourishment”, Eisa Mohamed Musa, the Minister of Health of Central Darfur State, told Radio Dabanga from the state capital of Zalingei on Friday. The minister regretted the closure of the hospitals, and attributed it to the lack of medical staff. “Huge numbers of doctors have migrated to other countries, where payments and working conditions are better.” He acknowledged that “Central Darfur State has done nothing to keep its medical staff”. He said that the state’s Health Ministry, in cooperation with the federal Ministry of Health, has developed a plan to reactivate the four hospitals. “The plan contains measures to deploy new medical personnel in the hospitals. We have also received a positive response from doctors, on the condition that they will receive appropriate incentives, so that they will continue their work. Hopefully, the four hospitals will reopen their doors in the near future.” The Health Minister denied that the recent closure of Deleig hospital was caused by a strike of its staff. “It developed from a health centre to a rural hospital. It was run by volunteers. We are currently working to restructure it, and recruiting new medical cadres. The new plan foresees in new personnel for all the four hospitals.” He also strongly denied the existence of mysterious diseases in Central Darfur, resulting in the death of several citizens. “Most of the diseases the people are suffering from are malaria, diarrhoea, and ailments resulting from malnutrition.” File photo: A broken ambulance at a Darfur hospital Related: Salary arrears lead to closure of Central Darfur hospital (11 September 2014)16 Central Darfur children dead from mystery disease (10 August 2014)
Four hospitals have closed their doors this year in Central Darfur, while the need for medical care is rapidly increasing in the area.
“The hospitals of Mukjar, Um Shalia, Bindisi, and Deleig were closed in the course of the current year, while more and more people in Central Darfur, and in particular the displaced, are in urgent need of medical care. Many suffer from malaria, fistula, fevers, diarrhoea, and malnourishment”, Eisa Mohamed Musa, the Minister of Health of Central Darfur State, told Radio Dabanga from the state capital of Zalingei on Friday.
The minister regretted the closure of the hospitals, and attributed it to the lack of medical staff. “Huge numbers of doctors have migrated to other countries, where payments and working conditions are better.” He acknowledged that “Central Darfur State has done nothing to keep its medical staff”.
He said that the state’s Health Ministry, in cooperation with the federal Ministry of Health, has developed a plan to reactivate the four hospitals.
“The plan contains measures to deploy new medical personnel in the hospitals. We have also received a positive response from doctors, on the condition that they will receive appropriate incentives, so that they will continue their work. Hopefully, the four hospitals will reopen their doors in the near future.”
The Health Minister denied that the recent closure of Deleig hospital was caused by a strike of its staff. “It developed from a health centre to a rural hospital. It was run by volunteers. We are currently working to restructure it, and recruiting new medical cadres. The new plan foresees in new personnel for all the four hospitals.”
He also strongly denied the existence of mysterious diseases in Central Darfur, resulting in the death of several citizens. “Most of the diseases the people are suffering from are malaria, diarrhoea, and ailments resulting from malnutrition.”
File photo: A broken ambulance at a Darfur hospital
Related:
Salary arrears lead to closure of Central Darfur hospital (11 September 2014)
16 Central Darfur children dead from mystery disease (10 August 2014)
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