WAU - 13 Jun 2016

Health clinic for teachers and students launched in Wau

A clinic to provide health services for teachers and students has been opened in Wau town.

Director General in the Ministry of Health, James Okelo Maraja said the clinic will reduce suffering of students and teachers, who currently face long wait times at health clinics in the area.

“When we go to Wau Teaching Hospital, we find students are waiting in a long queue and spend the whole day to get health services. That is why we thought to establish this health clinic for students in Wau,” Okelo said. “No one should pay now. It is the responsibility of the Ministry of Health to provide drugs and other services like the laboratory and we have provided beds for urgent cases,”.

Okelo said he hopes the clinic will boost education in the state.