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ABYEI - 15 Oct 2012

Complaints of lack of medicine in Abyei

Citizens of Abyei region face a lack of drugs at health centers, drug stores and hospitals. Ngor Chol, an Abyei resident, told Radio Tamazuj that the town is witnessing lack of drugs in health centers including even life-saving drugs such as medicines for malaria, blood pressure, diabetes, and asthma.

He pointed to the death of a large number of patients having malaria and pressure due to lack of medicine, referring to the spread of malaria and typhoid in the region. The diseases threaten the lives of hundreds of returnees to the town from the IDP camps in Warrap State.

Speaking Monday on Radio Tamazuj, Chol added also that a number of young people in the city also complained of rampant unemployment. They said the delay in forming the area administration has frozen work opportunities at service institutions that should exist in the town. Additionally, the failure to open the borders of Abyei with the south for the resumption of trade has further impoverished the region.

Youth demanded that the governments of north and south speed up the resolution of the crisis, and establish the Area Administrative Authority, so that citizens can carry on their lives freely as it was before the crisis.