20 Returnees’ Houses In Rumbek Are Submerged In Water South Sudanese Returnees from Khartoum settling in Lakes State at Nyot-tikagui area in Rumbek Central County are requesting the State Government and the United Nations Agencies to assist them in constructing a drainage system and to supply them with malaria drugs. 15 August 2011
Returnees at Comboni camp after arrival from Khartoum in February [©Benjamin Majok] By Gabriel Mayom RUMBEK, 15th August, 2011 [Gurtong] – South Sudanese Returnees from Khartoum settling in Lakes State at Nyot-tikagui area in Rumbek Central County are requesting the State Government and the United Nations Agencies to assist them in constructing a drainage system and to supply them with malaria drugs. About 20 houses have been submerged in stagnant water and people sleep on floating wooden beds. Nyot-tikagui is inaccessible as over four trucks delivering supplies got stuck inside the returnee’s camp premises due to the ongoing heavy downpour in various parts of South Sudan. According one resident Machol Dhuoruai, 20 make-shift houses among the 315 houses in the camp are completely submerged in water. He also added that people are sleeping inside these flooded structures. Dhuoruai said that, “We were not aware that the landscape here would retain rain water, now we sleep inside the flooded houses like fogs – a lot of diseases are affecting us too.” The most affected groups are small children, elderly people and pregnant women, mostly suffering for malaria. Urgent treatment needs to be administered to these returnees to avoid an outbreak of diseases. Sarah Yar Marial, a returnee at the camp told Gurtong that, “There is no help from the government that we know. If they opened a hospital here, they would have given us medicine for free.” However, the Lakes State Director for Southern Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (SSRRC) Mr. Philip Kot Job refused to address the media in response to returnee’s appalling state and demands. After the South voted for separation, a large number of returnees from Sudan settled in Lakes State with their relatives after spending 20 years away due to the civil war. Posted in: Home, Humanitarian, Foreign Aid/Assistance Comments -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
