Juba Teaching Hospital is the main public health facility in South Sudan. It is reported to have inadequate power supply and lacks doctors and nurses after many quit due to little pay and poor working conditions | Credit | File photo

More than 60 doctors at the Juba Teaching Hospital say they have stopped working for having not been paid salaries since December.

They say their conditions at the hospital are too poor for them to continue working.

Some say they requested the Ministry of Health to immediately solve their issue but the ministry only told them there was no money.

“Situation has compelled us to stop the duties. When we forwarded this complain to the office of the undersecretary, they denied us all these things. No accommodation, no water, no feeding, no whatever,” said Thomas Thik, one of the doctors.

For his part, the Undersecretary in the Ministry of Health denied that the doctors have stopped working.

Dr Makur Matur Koriom said all the doctors in the payroll of the ministry have received their salaries.

“What I know is that all the employees who work for the government of the Republic of South Sudan have not gotten up to this day their salaries for the month of March,” he explained.

However, the doctors say patients have now been left to the attention of only clinical officers and nurses.