EMERGENCY’s Paediatric Centre in Mayo – Providing Crucial Healthcare For The Local Population.
Among the Centre's patients: Safu and her girls.
Among the Centre's patients: Safu and her girls.
Hawa is 10 years old. Her story is very similar to the many we’ve become part of in Sudan and beyond.
Of all the children that visit, most have gastrointestinal or respiratory diseases, infections involving the eyes, ears and skin, intestinal parasites or malaria.
One of the main goals of each of our projects is continually training local colleagues, to transfer skills and create a positive impact on the country's healthcare system over time.
At our Paediatric Centre in Port Sudan, the only hospital located in one of the poorest areas of the city, we offer free and high-quality care to children up to the age of 14.
They are doctors and nurses coming from the Uganda Heart Institute in Kampala.
"For this special birthday, I express a single wish: to continue to be there, to be able to treat more and more children." A few days ago, our Paediatric Centre in Port Sudan celebrated 10 years of activity. "Since 2011,…
"The humanitarian situation in South Darfur is very difficult. A large part of the population lives in extreme poverty without access to basic health services. The high rate of malnutrition makes the needs of the youngest children increasingly urgent."
In early July 2021 began the second phase of our ‘Emergency initiative in support of the cardiology clinic at Orotta Hospital in Eritrea’.
Luca Rolla, EMERGENCY’s Country Director in Sudan, has sent us good news from Khartoum!