Health facility for refugees lacks admission wards for patients

By Hou Akot Hou

Wadwill primary health care Unit in Aweil West County which is helping provide health care services to Sudanese refugees and returnees lacks admission wards for patients in critical conditions.

William Thiep Akec, a health officer in Wadwil primary health center, said the influx of refugees and returnees over the past few months has overwhelmed the health care services.

“We don’t have admission ward where the patients can be administered. We just give drugs and complications are on the rise,” Thiep told Juba Echo on Wednesday.

He disclosed that every day they receive patients suffering from pneumonia, malaria and typhoid and yet they are at the same time running out of medical supplies.

“The drugs have been delivered in the facility but the ward is not furnished. We are appealing to the partners and the government to construct the admission wards,” Thiep said.

The state government has been promising over the past months to support refugees with medicines and food items.

South Sudan has received more than 90,000 returnees mostly South Sudanese who escaped  ongoing conflict in neighboring Sudan since April 15.