International Medical Corps has succeeded in trucking water to a clinic in Juba that treated more than 200 wounded without any water following clashes in which a camp of displaced civilians was also shelled.
The international medical aid group said that its clinic lacked water because of a shortage of fuel required to run generators that control submersible pumps. During the five days of violence from Thursday to Monday it was largely impossible for civilian vehicles to move in Juba, which led to the fuel shortage at the clinic.
Yesterday, however, IMC reported that it had finally restored the water supply at its clinic, which is located in the UN Protection of Civilians site and serves the more than 50,000 people seeking shelter there.
“We have thankfully been able to truck water to the hospital in the PoC and we have also been able to replenish some of our medical supplies,” said Crystal Wells, a spokesperson for the organization.
IMC says that it is operating the clinic 24 hours a day with ten national staff. It plans to send another medical team to relieve these staff, who treated 139 wounded in PoC 1 and 102 in PoC 3 since the outbreak of violence.