January 2010
4 posts
New Blood Bank at the Duk Lost Boys Clinic
It happens all too often around the world, especially in underdeveloped countries: A patient suffers and too often dies because of a lack of something simple, something available in the wealthier countries but not for the rest of the world, a medicine, an instrument, equipment, or trained personnel. All too often health workers in these places can only look around and lament how they wished they...
The Clinic’s new Nurse Midwife, Heryne, arrived in Duk last week with a large task in front of her. She is one of too few skilled midwives in all of South Sudan, and the only one for more than 100 miles. Maternal death rates are as high as 865 per 100,000 live births, and 1 in 10 children dies before age 1. In addition to her duties at the clinic, such as vaccinating mothers and children,...
John Dau at the Clinic
The following is a post from Jan. 3, 2009
John Dau left Duk yesterday, heading back to the U.S. after spending a month in South Sudan, meeting with other NGOs, government officials, viewing the clinic, spending time with family and friends, and discussing the future.
Every trip around the village brought long greetings with often large groups of people, happy to see their prodigal son returned...
Experiences at Duk
By Tom Dannan
Our team from the John Dau Foundation had been in Duk Payuel at the Clinic for a few days. I was the new guy, who’d been with JDF for six months or so, accompanied by a couple doctors who’d been with the Foundation from the beginning and were on their third trip to the Clinic.
I was hired in the states, and this was my first time to Sudan. In the time before coming,...