Mission Soudan
Mortality infant: 63‰
Life expectancy at birth: 56.4
HDI : 0.512; ranked 139/177
Actual GDP/inhabitant ($): 412
Délégations internationales : MdM Greece, MdM Canada
Beneficiaries
project 1: directly : 50,000 ; indirectly : 100,000
project 2: directly : 50,000 (town) ; indirectly : 150,000 (region)
Staff
project 1: local : 100 ; expatriate : 17
project 2: local : 1 ; expatriate : 1 + surgical teams
Sources of funding
project 1: DAH, German Foreign Ministry, DFID, ECHO
project 2: French Embassy, MdM
Budget 2005
project 1: 1,615,861 euros
project 2: 204,952 euros
Following the Peace Agreements signed in January 2005 in southern Sudan, there have been population movements in the region. These are of people who had fled during the 20 years of fighting in southern Sudan which ravaged these provinces and who are now returning to their home areas. The consequences of the war are disastrous socially as well as in terms of health and nutrition. The quality of healthcare is still deteriorating. In addition, although the social and political recomposition of southern Sudan is a fairly positive development, it is not happening without causing some local tensions between the different communities in the area.
Emergency medical care
Kalma, Dereij, Nyala - Southern Darfur
Activities:
MdM has set up a PHC centre in Kalma camp, equipped with a hospitalisation unit and delivery room, in conjunction with the health agencies already working there including ACF which is treating malnutrition. It includes 4 curative consultation posts, ante- and post-natal healthcare consultations, vaccination services, a medical analysis laboratory, quick testing for malaria and a pharmacy.
Outside the camp, MdMis also involved in mobile camps in Dereij camp amongst groups of displaced people around Nyala.
Outlook:
Continue community healthcare activities, occasional support work (water distribution, installation of diarrhoea treatment centres, nutritional screening, vaccination), logistical and human resources support and setting up an isolation camp in the event of a cholera epidemic.
Primary healthcare and surgery
Malakal
Activities:
The project aims to improve the quality of care given by the surgery unit of Malakal general hospital and to guarantee access to it for more people, focused on 4 main areas:
- renovating then equipping the surgery unit;
- training staff involved in surgical treatment;
- putting management systems for surgical consumables in place;
- putting a data collection and transmission system in place.
Outlook:
Continue training started in November 2005 and renovation work started in September 2005.