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Sr. Jane Francis, a Comboni Sister serving at St. Therese Hospital Nzara, South Sudan.

Patients Avoiding Hospital in South Sudan for Fear of COVID-19, Nun at Facility Concerned

May 14, 2020

Fear of getting infected with COVID-19 has led to many patients resisting admission at a Catholic hospital in South Sudan, a majority of them with unrelated health complications opting for self-medication away from the health facility. This situation is giving a Catholic nun working in the eastern Africa country a headache.

Nurses and trainee health care-givers at Mary Ward Primary Health Care Clinic in Rumbek, South Sudan pose for a photo outside the Clinic on the eve of International Nurses Day. / Sr. Orla Treacy

In South Sudan, Nurses at Loreto Clinic Improvising Protective Gear in COVID-19 Fight

May 13, 2020

As the world marked the International Nurses Day on Tuesday, May 12, celebrating the fearlessness, hard work and selflessness of nurses who continue to put their lives on the line to save those who have been diagnosed with COVID-19, our attention at ACI Africa was drawn to a clinic in South Sudan where health caregivers are fighting all odds in times of the pandemic to attend to the sick.

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