Healthcare in Sudan

OMB continues its focus on Sudan in the post-referendum vote days in an effort to help keep pressure on the US government and the international community to PAY ATTENTION to the on-going process in the country(s).

With violence in South Sudan, Darfur and Abeyi continuing, we began to think about how people hurt in the fighting were to be taken care of.  That led to other questions of healthcare — pregnant women, children, and the elderly.  How do vulnerable people in these areas, anyone in these areas for that matter, get the healthcare they need? The fact is that many of them don’t.  Healthcare statistics for South Sudan are appalling, and very, very sad.

These two links offer a picture of the challenge South Sudan has before it in terms of creating a healthcare system.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/jan-june11/sudan_01-03.html

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/africa/110209/south-sudan-health-care

Independence offers many opportunities, among them building a healthcare system that meets the needs of people who have been long neglected.  But to be in a position to do that, the international community must support the transitional period during which South Sudan is planning for its emergence as a new nation. Call your representatives and remind them that Sudan is still in need of our vigilance and our support.