Mapel Health Centre In Dire Need Of Medical Staff Mapel Primary Health Care Centre (PHCC) community is calling on the Western Bahr el Ghazal State Ministry of Health for additional medical personnel and medical resources to rescue the community’s appalling health situation. 15 August 2011
Graduates at the Juba College of Nursing and Midwifery [©southsudanmedicaljournal] By James Deng Dimo MAPEL, 15th August, 2011 [Gurtong] - Mapel Primary Health Care Centre (PHCC) community is calling on the Western Bahr el Ghazal State Ministry of Health for additional medical personnel and medical resources to rescue the community’s appalling health situation. Speaking to Gurtong in Mapel on Sunday, the Laboratory assistant at the centre Mr. Joseph Ungom Aken urged the Ministry of Health to provide the health Centre with necessary facilities, which include Malaria drugs since the centre was administering over 200 Malaria cases a day. “The centre is shabby with a few malaria testing kits and some other equipments which do sustain us long before referring our patients to Wau Teaching Hospital,” Joseph revealed. “We also don’t have an emergency ambulance to rush critical patients to Wau Teaching Hospital which is 47 miles away from Mapel,” he added. Joseph said that child mortality rate is high in Mapel since the centre has no qualified midwives to facilitate the delivery process. Rejoice Nyiwal, a community health worker in Mapel PHCC decried over the outbreak of measles in the area which is affecting 1- 15 years old children. “We are calling on the State Ministry of Health to intervene or to send an emergency mobile medical team with Doctors, equipped with medical facilities to combat measles outbreak and other diseases in the area. Mapel has the highest population in Western Bahr el Ghazal State hence urgent medical intervention is needed to curb the outbreak of various diseases. “The situation can be worse if not addressed by the State Ministry of Health,” said Nyiwal. The health centre is also too congested, it is admitting more patients daily compared to the 20 beds provided. Mapel Primary Health Care Centre (PHCC) was managed by Health Net since 2005 to 2010 before it was handed over to the State Government. Ever since the Ministry of Health took control, the area community has been raising complains about the poor services and medical fraternity in the centre. Mapel PHCC was founded by MSF Belgium (Medecins Sans Frontieres) in 1994 during the civil war before it was handed over to the Heath Net earlier in 2005. Posted in: Home, Health -- 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.
