Dr. Ajak Bullen Aleer, the director of the Juba Military Hospital, has called on citizens to donate blood to soldiers under treatment there. The hospital has newly opened a blood bank to store donated blood for wounded soldiers.
“We receive anybody who wants to donate blood. Before, we used to send people to Juba Teaching Hospital to donate blood then receive it from Juba Teaching Hospital, but now you don’t need to go to Juba Teaching Hospital,” said the doctor, speaking on UN radio.
“You just have to come to the military hospital you will find the blood bank and people ready to serve you. We have started and we are very ready to serve whoever comes to donate blood.”
Media in South Sudan have mostly avoided reporting on war casualties – the numbers of dead and wounded since the start of the civil war.
The free press have produced also few reports on conditions for the wounded, while the war press have reported primarily only on claims of enemy casualties. The South Sudanese government does not does not disclose the numbers of casualties suffered by its own forces.
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