Category: Health

“Treat me first before going to mortuary” – MP opposed hefty mortuary allocation.

National lawmakers on Wednesday differed over a proposal to allocate one billion pounds to fund the construction of mortuaries in the country.

The reactions were during Wednesday’s deliberation and passing of the 1.4 trillion financial budget for this year.

The majority of the lawmakers opposed the move, but rather call for equipping and improving health facilities to provide proper health care for the citizens.

Those opposed to the idea suggest that the money be remitted to the South Sudan Health Council to improve the health system in the county.

One of them, Hon. Ambrose who is one of the MPs says people need treatment before they go to the mortuaries.

“Here there is a reservation for all. The money is 1 billion for the mortuaries. Before I go to the mortuary I need to be treated first. I’m hereby removing the 1 billion to South Sudan medical health.”

The call for better health facilities was triggered by the sudden demise of the former deputy Speaker of the house, Jasmine Samuel on Sunday.

South Sudan Capital Juba has only two public mortuaries that severed the entire city dwellers, yet the facilities are small to accommodate corpses.

Manyo County official takes own life over ‘unbearable’ illness –

The Director of Information of Manyo County in Upper Nile State was found dead Wednesday morning in what the area commissioner said was a suicide.

Commissioner Peter Awon says a note was found with Sansalous Aban Othur, 55, stating why he decided to end his life.

“Actually, the late was suffering from epilepsy before he died. He left a message, and he mentioned that he was fade-up with his illness, and he could handle this anymore.”

Awon told Eye Radio, the late in a message said, he was epileptic and sought treatment for the illness in Juba and in Khartoum, Sudan.

“He went for treatment in Rabak, Khartoum, and Juba and all this had no change.”

“He felt a severe fever all night which is the reason for hanging himself. This is what he wrote in his message.”

But his condition became worst recently as he continued to suffer from severer fever during night hours.
Commissioner Awon narrated the incident to Eye Radio this morning.

Uganda trainee doctors abandoned patients as six exposed to Ebola virus

Trainee medics battling Ebola in Uganda’s virus epicenter accuse the government of putting their lives at risk.

“Most times you come into contact with a patient and you use your bare hands,” one worker told the BBC anonymously.

All trainees at Mubende’s regional hospital say they are on strike and are demanding to be moved somewhere safer.

But Ugandan health ministry spokesman Emmanuel Ainebyoona told the BBC there was “no strike at the hospital”.

Yet all 34 of the hospital’s interns – including doctors, pharmacists, and nurses – have announced their decision to strike in a joint statement.

They say they are being put at undue risk because they lack appropriate safety kits, risk allowances, and health insurance.

Six interns at the hospital have already been exposed to the virus, and are awaiting their test results in isolation.

Since the outbreak began earlier this month, official government data shows 36 people are suspected of contracting Ebola, of whom 23 have died.

A 24-year-old-man was the first known Ebola death, and six members of his family also died.

No effective Ebola vaccine is available here yet, because the Sudan strain circulating in central Uganda is different to the Zaire strain that has afflicted West Africa and DR Congo and which can be immunised against.

Rape survivors languish with trauma, injuries as funding reduced -UN

UN rights group says survivors of sexual violence including women gang-raped multiple times in South Sudan, have been left without medical and psychological care as funding has reduced due to the war in Ukraine.

The commissioners of the United Nations Human Rights Commission on South Sudan said they noted with concern the emotional exhaustion of several women who have been raped up to five times after a visit to parts of the country last week.

Established in 2016 to document human rights violations amid renewed fighting in Juba, the UN human rights body has continued to release reports of rights violations, implicating armed groups and the army in the abuse.

Yasmin Sooka, the chairperson of the commission said she and members of the delegation – during a visit to Western Equatoria State – were told survivors of sexual violence were like ‘zombies’, after suffering emotional exhaustion for lack of medical and psychological support after experiencing multiple rapes since 2013.

“Just imagine what it means to be raped by multiple armed men, pick yourself up for the sake of your children, and then for it to happen again and again and again. These women are asking us when it will stop – 2013, 2016, 2018, 2021, and now in 2022 – they say they keep telling their stories, and nothing changes,” said Sooka.

In another visit to Unity State last week, the members of the commission noted that access to medical services for survivors of sexual violence have been affected by funding cut. Yet, the demand for the services continues to surge.

In the deep villages where medical services are nonexistent, the commission said, women no longer report multiple violations, in the face of unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.

Meanwhile, Barney Afako, a member of the commission said “it’s going on all the time, largely unseen. It’s only that we cannot document it consistently throughout the country and that the international community’s attention is elsewhere.”

The watchdog body said the absence of a formal court to prosecute serious crimes such as murder and rape, and impunity are largely to blame for the widespread violations.

In its latest report published in March 2022, and titled Conflict-related sexual violence against women and girls in South Sudan, the commission criticized the national army, SSPDF, and opposition group SPLM/A-IO among others for murder, rape, displacement of civilians in parts of the country since the outbreak of the conflict in 2013.
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According to reports, the war which ended in 2018, has killed an estimated 400,000 South Sudanese,

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