<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">massimo serventi</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ser20@hotmail.it">ser20@hotmail.it</a>></span><br><br><br>
<div>I agree with what Remco van der Pass has written. It depicts well the situation here in Nyala, South Sudan.<br><br>
There is a war from years, people are poor,agriculture that was florid because of enough rain is abandoned,food is distributed in camps.....<br>
Children malnutrition is a problem every year. Maternal mortality is high, vaccination coverage is 31%(!).<br>
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So, in this scenario one is surprised to see that most of health care is provided through <u>private </u>medicine. <u>Inside</u> the main governmental hospital of Nyala there is a 'second' hospital, totally private, where you may find all laboratory and investigation facilities including CT scan and specialist consultations performed by the same doctors of the hospital. <br>
Antenatal care in Nyala is not free:mothers have to pay for the examination AND for tablets of ferrous-sulphate. Delivery is also not for free. Most mothers opt to deliver at home...but also here they must pay the midwife or TBA.<br>
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This situation is well known to Sudanese doctors, they are professional and skilled. But....their salaries do not allow them to maintain decently their families, therefore private medicine becomes the 'obvious' source of income. I was told that 70% of the government budget goes to military spending, and less than 2% goes to health. Is it true? What to do? what to say?which is the role that NGO should play? I wrote to them(all) this kind of letter but none replied to me. <br>
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One point is clear to me: can I ,Massimo, who gets a salary that is 10 times higher than that of my Sudanese colleague blame him because of conducting private health businness? I cannot! but also my international colleagues, working in UN agencies and international NGOs...CANNOT!<br>
So.....<br>
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Thanks<br>
Massimo<br>
Pediatrician<br>
Nyala <br>
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<div><span style="font-size:large">From: <b>MMI Executive Secretariat</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:office@medicusmundi.org" target="_blank">office@medicusmundi.org</a>></span><br></span>
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<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span style="font-size:large">From: </span></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-size:large"><a href="mailto:remco.van.de.pas@wemos.nl" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);text-decoration:none">remco.van.de.pas@wemos.nl</span></a></span><br>
<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-size:large">There is some shift in health systems thinking, both for the good and the bad....</span></div></div></div></div></div>