Dozens of Blue Nile women in Ethiopia’s Tango refugee camp face deteriorating medical conditions since the Ethiopian Administration for Refugee Affairs allegedly began restricting access to maternal healthcare.
A female refugee told Radio Tamazuj Monday that there were increasing maternal complications among mothers and pregnant women because of poor primary healthcare services.
She said that the Administration for Refugees Affairs (ARA), which is Ethiopia’s refugee agency, banned people from getting any medical treatment outside the camp, while local authorities have banned midwives from working inside the camp.
Several refugees also complained about the absence of ambulances for emergency cases in the camp.
“When the MSF organization was operating here ambulances were being used for transfer of emergency cases to the Beiji area outside the camp” she noted.
Tango camp currently accommodates thousands of refugees who fled conflict in Blue Nile State on Sudan’s borders with South Sudan and Ethiopia.
Fighting between the Sudan Armed Forces and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North and other Sudanese rebel groups began in September 2011.
File photo: Sudanese refugees from Blue Nile state (by UNHCR)
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