Rehaid El Bardi, July 28(Darfur 24)The administration of the Rehiad El Bardi local hospital, located more than 130 kilometers west of Nyala, the provincial of South Darfur State, revealed lack of life-saving medicines for a long time.
The medical director of Rehiad Hospital, Dhu Al-Nurain Muhammad Bashir, told Darfur 24 that “autumn diseases” have begun to increase, including malaria and typhoid.”
He revealed the spread of diarrhea among children in a major way, as the hospital receives 10 to 15 cases per day.
The medical director complained about the lack of emergency medicines at the hospital, and said that “the last order of emergency medicines reached them from the state Ministry of Health in late 2022, after which the hospital began to rely on popular efforts and contributions from the people of the locality inside and outside.”
He added: “We received medicines from Doctors Without Borders last February, and the World Health Organization also delivered medicines to us in July.”
The hospital suffers from a shortage of all surgical inputs, including “gauze, surgical gauze, examination gauze, and sutures,” in addition to a severe shortage of laboratory materials.
Dhu al-Nurain revealed that the hospital lost its solar energy system, which was stolen.
He continued: “Any citizen who has an operation is obligated to prepare fuel for the steamer, in addition to paying the operation fees and the cost of inputs. They face a real suffering, and the hospital also suffers from a water problem.”
In turn, pharmacist Muhammad al-Samani Muhammad confirmed the lack of life-saving medicines in the Rahid al-Bardi locality in the emergency and operations.
He told “Darfur 24” that emergency medicines, including intravenous solutions, surgical anesthesia medicines, surgical sutures, and even catheters and blood bags, are unavailable.
Al-Samani pointed out the unavailability of medicines for chronic diseases such as diabetes and blood pressure, while the available ones are at high prices, “which has increased the suffering of patients, especially since there are citizens who have been displaced from their places and cannot even buy medicine.”
He added: “These medicines have become available in the private sector, but not in the required quantities and do not include all the items needed by people with chronic diseases.”
He stressed that malaria and infection medicines and some intravenous solutions arrive from Chad and South Sudan, but not in sufficient quantities, and there are obstacles in the fall due to the roughness of the road and the difficulty of access, which increased their cost.
Before the war, the state Ministry of Health, the National Fund for Medical Supplies and the World Health Organization provided medical supplies to Rahid Al-Bardi Hospital, but this supply stopped after the outbreak of the conflict.