Malarial drugs

Residents of Lasu Payam, Yei River County, are forced to travel several miles to the border of DR Congo to search for medical treatment, a health official has said.

The Primary Health center in the area is said to have run short of drugs since 2012.

Lasu clinical officer Gale Emmanuel said many patients travel to refugee settlement camps to get medical attention.

“Essential drug supplies…like paracetamol, anti-malarial like the quinine and all that are drugs that are being used every day,” he said.

“But most of these drugs were supplied since 2012, and it has even reduced the number of attendance of our patients. Most of them go to a health center, that is, in a refugee settlement camp.”

Mr. Gale also said that there is no Voluntary Testing and Counseling Center or drugs for people living with HIV/AIDs