Managing Director of Cap Anamur / German Emergency Doctors e.V. visits hospital in Sudan
Bernd Göken, Managing Director of Cap Anamur / German Emergency Doctors e.V. left for a project visit to Sudan on April 24.
Despite the current fighting in Sudan, Cap Anamur’s executive director left for our hospital in the Nuba Mountains
“We need to further consolidate our work in the Nuba Mountains under the current conditions in Sudan. With our hospital and three other medical sites, we continue to be there for the people in the region,” explains Bernd Göken shortly before his project trip to Sudan on April 24.
Bernd Göken has been intimately familiar with Sudan for over 20 years. He has helped run Cap Anamur’s hospital in the Nuba Mountains since 1999. At that time, there was already a bloody civil war, which has not been completely settled to this day, as no binding peace treaty has yet been signed.
Cap Anamur’s work in Sudan has always taken place under difficult conditions.
In the 25 years that Cap Anamur has been working in Sudan, there have been repeated armed conflicts. Occasionally, project staff had to be brought to safety from air raids.
In recent years, however, the situation in the Nuba Mountains has been calmer. In 2018/19, the last attacks took place in the region.
Bernd Göken made the trip to Sudan despite the current fighting. It is particularly important to him to talk personally with the German team on site, which consists of doctors, nurses and a technician.