Drug scarcity hits Torit State Hospital – Sudans Post
JUBA-Torit State Hospital in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria is grappling with a scarcity of important medication for 4 months.
Francis Iwa Andruga, Administrator of Torit State Hospital instructed Sudans Post in an interview on Monday, stated the scarcity was resulting from delay of drug provides.
“When UNDP as an implementing partner came in July. Around August, we received a little quantity of medicine from them. That was not enough,” Andruga stated.
“It has become a referral hospital for the state here. So the consumption rate is very high, and the quantity received will not even take us for a month.”
Andruga stated the extreme scarcity of medicines, exacerbated by months of restricted entry, has compelled sufferers to purchase treatment from personal clinics.
“When you go around and ask the patients, most of our patients go and buy drugs from outside. The good thing is, we still maintain good diagnosis, because the laboratory is functional. So we diagnose them, and then prescribe them ready medicines they go and buy from outside clinics.”
He stated the Hospital can also be struggling to answer well being emergencies following the breakdown of its ambulance.
“We are having issues with the referral system. Now our ambulance is down. They were unable to be repaired. This is another challenge, because we cannot now respond to emergencies, whenever we are called,” he stated.
He stated the state-owned hospital lacks fashionable microscopes.
“Other challenges are, we have many, many challenges. Equipment, supplies of medicines, and all these things are not in place,” he stated.
He appealed to the federal government and companions to help the hospital to ship life-saving providers to the sufferers.
“The message I would like to give out is, particularly our government, that we need their help,” he stated.
“So through them, let them talk to the implementing partners to really exert their effort to support this hospital. The manpower is ready now to do the work, but without motivation, I’m sure they will also get tired.”
