Juba Teaching Hospital/Photo by Madrama James|01/01/2024

Juba Teaching Hospital has recieved 180 patients with various injuries from road traffic accidents during the Christmas celebration, a medical official said.   

Akoon Dhel Machuar, Medical Director at the Department of Accident and Emergency, said most of the patients arrive during daytime.

Machuar revealed that surgery ward is often overwhelmed by accidents victims during the holidays while the medical ward receives less patients.

“We have 75 patients during the daytime with the different injuries. And during the nighttime, we have 60 patients with the different,” he said in an interview with Eye Radio at the hospital.

“In the medical ward, we receive 30 patients during the daytime and 15 patients during the nighttime.”

“The medical ward always is receiving less patients during the Christmas or the New Year, but in the surgery ward, the number is more high than the medical.”

Meanwhile, Juba Military Hospital at the Giada barrack has registered seven patients with different injuries for the last two days.

According to George Garang Mach, Clinical Officer at the Military Hospital, majority of the patients have minor injuries except one patient who is in critical condition.

“There’s the one who was stamped on the abdomen. But it’s not bad. The other one also was struck on the chest, which is coming from the Terekeka Road. At night, there were no patient. In this morning, we receive about five patients with different cuts and wounds.”

Garang said the hospital has been adequately funded for the last four years. He appealed for the provision of sufficient essential drugs at the military hospital.

“The challenges we have here is mainly because we don’t have enough medicine and other things that the patients need like operation.”

“We want to do operation but we lack of some other instruments for the operation. Due to lack of funds. Because this military hospital is just sitting alone, nobody supports it.”

“We only depend on our ministry of defense. Like now due to this economic crisis, we don’t have medicine. We have to buy our medicine by ourselves. No organization is supporting this hospital. And this hospital also is the one supporting many, many, many citizens in this country.”