April 2010
2 posts
Donating Blood Saved A Life
On a visit last week to deliver ultrasound equipment to the Duk Lost Boys Clinic, John Dau Foundation Associate Medical Director Dr. Reed was called upon for something not requiring his medical knowledge.
The evening of Dr. Reed’s last night in Duk, a young mother and her husband came to the Clinic. She had given birth in her village several weeks ago, and had post-partum hemmorage. In...
March 2010
4 posts
Displacement Occurring in Duk County
When the John Dau Foundation constructed the Duk Lost Boys Clinic in John Dau’s home village of Duk Payuel in March 2007, there were just a handful of people living there. In the three years since then, the population of both the immediate village and the entire county of Duk has grown immensely to more than 70,000 people.
Yet things are still not settled in Duk, evidenced by a recent...
Midwife Comes to the Clinic
The Maternal Child Health (MCH) services at the Clinic have been growing exponentially over the past several months, thanks in large part to the work of the Clinic staff led by its Nurse Midwife, Heryne. Since arriving two months ago, Heryne has been both doer and teacher. She unhesitatingly gets up in the middle of the night for a delivery or an emergency, or runs off to a village to attend to an...
Important Meetings Held in Juba
At the time when the John Dau Foundation constructed the Duk Lost Boys Clinic in May 2007, South Sudan was deserted—there were few non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating, the Ministries and government infrastructure was extremely limited, and the country was just starting to rebuild itself. Juba, the capital of South Sudan, is not what many would consider a capital city in...