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South Sudan (Republic of): 100 gunshot wounds treated at hospital

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Source: Miraya FM
Country: South Sudan (Republic of)

Electricity was restored at Juba Teaching Hospital Tuesday, and it has been turned into an emergency unit.

All non-essential treatments have been suspended, and doctors say they have treated more than one hundred people for gunshot wounds.

There has been a general call out for people to donate blood.

Doctors say they have been donating their own blood, and if stocks aren’t replenished they could run out by as soon as tonight.

The Undersecretary in the Ministry of health, Matur Makur Koriom, earlier said 26 people have died and 140 others are receiving treatment at Juba Teaching Hospital.

Makur said the hospital has up to 70 medical personnel on standby.

Meanwhile, a total of 43 cases have been registered by UN hospitals.

A majority of those admitted are being treated for gunshot wounds and malaria.

A 4-year-old girl being treated for a wound to her head is one of three babies that were brought to the clinic without their parents.

Dr Chan Thou, a medical officer at the UN hospital at the Tomping base, has told Radio Miraya eight babies were born yesterday, and this morning three women were in labor.

Mothers who have just delivered have been seen nursing their babies on bare mattresses spread out on the floor.

Dr Chan warns the UN hospital is full and they have no space to admit any more new arrivals.

“As of now the place is full, we don’t have a place to receive them for sleeping, we just get them and support for injuries, clean the dressing and give them medicine and they (have to) go back.”


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