SOUTH SUDAN: The ongoing fight against malaria
Rainy season is well underway in South Sudan. And with the rains, come mosquitoes. With mosquitoes, comes malaria.
HEALTH CARE RETURNS
In South Sudan, ALIMA and its local NGO partner, AFOD (Action for Development), have been providing free health care in the hospital in the northwestern city of Raja since May 2017. Our teams have been reaching local populations outside of Raja city with mobile health clinics since July 2017.
Nurses on the frontlines: Testimonies from the field
Nurses around the world play a key role, each and every day, in delivering high-quality, life-saving medical care to patients. This is particularly true in conflict and crisis zones, where there is often a lack of access to health services and not enough doctors to cover the needs. As the world celebrates the hardwork and dedication of all nurses on this International Nurses Day, we asked some of our health workers to share their most memorable stories from the field.
The SMS interview with François: episode 2, in Aweil
François is working in Juba, South Sudan as Assistant Head of Mission. He has been in South Sudan for a few weeks now and is currently in the field, in Aweil. He tells us more about his adventures in an SMS interview.
South Sudan: Mobile clinics respond to malaria peak
Early each morning, medical teams from ALIMA (The Alliance for International Medical Action) load up a small truck with lifesaving medications and supplies, and drive as long as two hours into remote communities in South Sudan’s Aweil State, to provide primary health care to local populations. The biggest concern at the moment: malaria.
South Sudan: « Each day we continue to save the lives of our patients »
At the Raja State Hospital in South Sudan’s Lol State, the power goes out each morning. It won’t come back on for another 12 hours. Health staff can switch on a newly-acquired generator to provide electricity to the most important machines – including two oxygen compressors – but the rest of the hospital remains without lights or fans. There is still no functioning lab on the grounds to diagnose some pathologies or allow for blood transfusions.
