Reference :
V-P-SS-E-00983
Date :
07/2017
Caption :
Old Fangak,ICRC surgical hospital. Louise Humphrey, ICRC hospital administrator, is talking to a patient.
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
ICRC website, photo gallery "ICRC evacuates 22 patients as fighting continues in South Sudan", 14 July 2017
"She was based in Maiwut, but is now working in Old Fangak. "I don't have constant contact with patients. My role is more in the background, making sure the surgeons have what they need to operate and the nurses have the supplies to do the daily round of dressings, antibiotics and pain relief", she says.
Intensified fighting near Maiwut forced the ICRC to evacuate all staff and patients from Maiwut town and hospital.
Due to heavy rain, the flight could not land in Maiwut and the staff and patients had to move by road to Pagak, a border town to Ethiopia. From there, the evacuation continued by air to Old Fangak.
Twenty-two patients in need of surgical follow up were evacuated to Old Fangak"
The ICRC has evacuated all staff and patients from Maiwut town and hospital. The first priority of the ICRC was to ensure that the patients who had been admitted to our hospital in Maiwut continued to receive the medical treatment and surgical interventions they need. For their protection and continuum of care, the ICRC thus relocated 22 patients with need of surgical follow-up to our mobile surgical team in Old Fangak. All patients were evacuated by air from Maiwut to Old Fangak and are now receiving treatment in Old Fangak.
Original material :
digital
Resolution :
5760x3840
Orientation :
landscape
Colour/B&W :
colour
