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

The Jonglei State Minister of health says everyone who has been injured in recent violence is being treated in Bor Hospital, regardless of their tribal background.

More than 230 patients have swamped the hospital and local medical clinics, after fighting between mainly young men from Akobo and Pibor.

The United Nations also fears many more wounded people are hiding out in bush, while many displaced by the fighting are being forced to eat leaves from trees.

At least one report has suggested only one side is receiving medical treatment in Bor Hospital, but the state Health Minister Jehan Makuei Deng, says it is nonsense.

“Bor hospital is a national state hospital that is open to all the citizens of the Republic of South Sudan – all of them, not only Jonglei citizens.

“So, that is a wrong allegation and it does not happen here. Whoever comes, we do not have a format that says requires nationality, or what clan or what tribes.

“We do know who comes to us accept a South Sudanese and we treat them regardless we only treat who came to us and we give fair equal treatments because we do not really care were the come from.

Our job is to offer health services only.”

Madam Jehan also said that all the wounded are being treated at Bor hospital.