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Medicine Sans Frontières (MSF) has resumed secondary level healthcare services in the Kajo Keji County Civil Hospital, Central Equatoria state.
MSF reported that County Civil Hospital which was largely destroyed by the conflict over the years is now functional to offer quality healthcare in maternity, emergency room intensive care unit (ICU), surgery and internal medicine.
Jocelyn Yapi, is the MSF head of Mission in South Sudan.
She says launch of the much-needed medical services in the hospital will help to ensure that people in Kajo Keji County are able to access quality healthcare without payment.
“The launch of the much-needed medical services in the hospital will help to ensure that people in Kajo Keji County are able to access quality healthcare for free. MSF is pleased to collaborate with Ministry of Health and other actors to provide medical humanitarian assistance where it is needed, including in response to incidents of violence,” said Jocelyn Yapi.
She added that, in the first 24 hours of its opening, the hospital received nine casualties reportedly injured as a result of shooting in the area following a violent incident in the county.
“Violent incidents like this are of grave concern to MSF because they lead to suffering, loss of lives and displacement of the people. Insecurity may make it too dangerous or risky for the patients to seek the healthcare they need at clinics and medical facilities like the Kajo Keji hospital,” Jocelyn Yapi added.
The MSF head of mission in South Sudan reveals that, MSF teams are assessing the situation of displaced people due to recent incident, and will begin distributing essential items such as blankets, soaps, water containers, and bed nets to help prevent malaria.
Local authorities and community around applauded the organization for re-establishing the secondary level medical activities in the county.
Alice, a midwife stated that, the reestablishment of Kajo-keji Hospital will improve the livelihood of returnees mostly children and pregnant mothers.
“I am very glad that our hospital is open today. Since we have gone to exile, there was no proper hospital to manage our pregnant women, children and our parents. I am very glad that you [MSF] are going to open the hospital for us.”
The hospital’s inauguration on February 1st 2023 was attended by Kajo Keji County officials, Uganda’s Moyo district, Ministry of health and MSF staff, community members and other health organizations withn Kajo-Keji County.