Nyala, September10(Darfur 24) The management of the Um Jinnah Administrative Unit Health Center in South Darfur state launched a distress call to humanitarian and voluntary organizations to intervene urgently to save the health situation in the region and restart the health center, which closed its doors three months ago due to the lack of medicine, which caused the conditions of patients to worsen.
The director of the health center, Dr. Issa Abdul Rahman Issa told (Darfur 24) that the health center continued to provide services to (56) villages in the administrative unit of Umm Jinnah and suffered greatly throughout the period of the war that broke out in Nyala on the fifteenth of last April until it was completely out of service three months ago due to the interruption of medicines and the cessation of services. Immunization, nutrition and reproductive health.
Issa revealed that reports of deaths among pregnant women and children have been recorded as a result of the lack of immunization since last April, in addition to the spread of colds, diarrhea, malaria and acute infections, in addition to the deaths of some children suffering from malnutrition due to the lack of therapeutic food.
It is noteworthy that the workers have not been paid their salaries since April, like the general employees in the state of South Darfur, and they continued to provide service voluntarily until the moment the center went out of service.