People suffering from malaria are stretching Rumbek State Hospital to its limits and most of those admitted are women and children.
Good News Radio talked with Teraan Gor Teraan, an assistant doctor at the hospital. He said most of the patients being brought to the hospital suffer from malaria.He blamed the rains for the outbreak of malaria.
Dr. Gor added that the number of admissions, mostly women and children, has overstretched the services.
He explaining that the facility was constructed as a county hospital but in reality it is serving the entire state.
He lamented that women and men share the same medical ward due to lack of facilities.
An elderly man, who introduced himself as Marek, was accompanying a seven-year old boy who is receiving treatment at the hospital for two days.
Amako Magok said she was at the hospital nursing her sick child together with her step mother.
Many patients at the hospital were receiving treatment on the verandas due to severe congestion in the four existing wards.