South Sudanese student doctors /File photo.

South Sudanese medical doctors who are doing houseman-ships in Khartoum are appealing to the South Sudanese Minister of Health to confirm their employment.

Several Khartoum-based doctors told Eye Radio that some of their colleagues were suffering from serious financial difficulties.

Dr. Ajawin Anthony Ajak from the South Sudanese Doctors’ Committee said there used to be sixty medical graduates in Khartoum but already thirteen has returned to South Sudan.

“And some more people may return if the condition does not improve and may relinquish the training,” he said.

Dr Ajak said that they needed the South Sudan Ministry of Health to confirm their employment and process payments.

Medical institutes in South Sudan are a concern for Dr. Louis Edward Ufew, who says that such institutes will enable graduates to partake in continuing education.

“We are urging our government and our people in South Sudan to make this appeal through humanitarian organizations that these are important centers,” he said.  “These can be in form of national laboratories and centers for training of new medical doctors.”

Apart from forty seven doctors who are attending training in Khartoum State, there are another eighty new medical graduate-doctors who are expected to start similar positions within the next few months.

The National Minister of Health Dr. Riak Gai Kok said that all new medical doctors and nurses are of great value to the country.

Dr Riak said that with support from international partners, the Ministry will send thirty doctors abroad this year, to be trained in obstetrics and gynecology.