The UNMISS Kenyan Battalion in Kuacjok is supporting the Warrap State Hospital by lending medical expertise, following an earlier project last year to upgrade the hospital.
A medical officer from the Kenyan battalion visits the hospital two to three times weekly, making the rounds with the doctors onsite. In a statement on its Facebook page, UNMISS said that the Kenyan doctor focuses primarily on the maternity ward, and if time permits, also spends time in the general ward and outpatient ward.
UNMISS says this outreach effort is “part of its civil-military activities in Warrap State.”
Last year the UNMISS Relief, Reintegration, and Protection Section in Warrap completed a project to upgrade the hospital including rehabilitating the general ward, installing solar panels, maintaining and extending the water system, constructing latrines for the maternity ward and providing anaesthetic equipment.
The Warrap State Hospital started as a dispensary in 1954, became a hospital in 2009, and finally became Warrap State Hospital in 2012, one year after Independence. The hospital has a general ward, maternity ward, outpatient ward, operating theater, dispensary, and family planning unit.
Photos: UNMISS/JC McIlwaine