As government foregoes salary payment, due to financial constraints, medical provisions must be a priority, to diffuse sicknesses and hunger, tormenting citizens.
Amidst delirium of survival to the next day, patients seeking medical attention from Yei Civil Hospital, are already encountering shortage of essential supplies.
According to the Hospital medical director, Dr. Morbe Taban, medical equipment, drugs, and fuel have run out.
It’s not only very disheartening but also treacherous for a sick person to travel all the way from Morobo, Lainya, and neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, to bounce back without treatment.
The condition of Yei Civil Hospital depicts the incapacitation of several other facilities in the country as a check-on would reveal similar malaise.
Each day citizens battle economic turmoil, while insecurity crawls in with cruelty and floods add a rancor, then, with medical deficiency at the trajectory, what do you expect?
In outburst, the ordinary citizens point at those in power, whom they assert, have abandoned them to the mercy of God, while they [leaders] seek services from the neighbouring countries.
The paralysis-hunching health facilities must be eradicated and mitigated before its infectiousness becomes a pandemic, for calamities have trodden citizens to dust.