Even though the MSF hospital looks more like a tent than a hospital, it is the only thing close to genuine medical care in the region. They provide excellent treatment to babies and children, including giving vaccinations. Soon it seems they will be gone.
This of course increases the sense of urgency in providing the medical assistance that Ang'er and Deborah, the midwife at Aweil Civic Hospital, have asked us for.
I have established a medical task group which is currently working towards sourcing the required medical equipment and supplies to resource the midwives and birthing assistants. When this is ready we plan to take a team to Aweil which will include an Australian midwife working with a Sudanese midwife to provide some basic training and establish a small maternity section in the defunct Aweil hospital. The task group includes Dr Victoria Anip, a Sudanese doctor based at Modbury Hospital, two Sudanese midwives - Asha Sulaman and Aderek Rieng - and Ros Stafford-Green who I introduced a few articles earlier.
It is hard to comprehend that a community that has so little appears to be losing the small amount of medical assistance it has received from the outside world. Please pray for our medical task group as we seek to respond to the ever-increasing need.
