Steady Improvement of Medical Care in the Nuba Mountains

Cap Anamur Hospital in the Nuba Mountains

The civil war in southern Sudan, which lasted until 2018, destroyed the infrastructure of the entire region. Many schools, hospitals and villages were destroyed by bombing. The armed conflict in the south of Sudan, leads to a high number of refugees in the Nuba Mountains. There, people found shelter from the attacks. Cap Anamur has therefore concentrated its aid in Sudan on medical care for the people in the Nuba Mountains, because living conditions in the remote mountains are precarious.

Cap Anamur provides basic medical care for people

With our hospital in Lwere and the three medical outposts within a radius of 150 kilometers, we are able to provide comprehensive care. The hospital complex now includes an outpatient clinic, a mother and child ward, an operating theater building several patient rooms, a laboratory and an emergency room. By continuously modernizing and optimizing our medical facilities, we improve their operation in the long term.

After we put the new mother-child ward into operation in 2021, our construction work this year will focus on the new ER building.
The previous emergency room could no longer adequately meet the steadily increasing demand, and the building was increasingly in need of renovation. Therefore, we have now constructed a new building in the center of the compound.

The new emergency room will be a more modern and larger building that will provide more capacity. The foundation of the new building was already laid in the spring. Construction is progressing well, so that by now the exterior walls are complete and the roof structure has been erected.

The next step is to plaster the interior walls and finish the floors.

The old emergency room will be renovated in another construction project and then converted into patient rooms.

So far, three tukuls, traditional round huts with thatched roofs, are being used as patient rooms at the hospital complex. As these are increasingly dilapidated and located at the end of the site, they no longer provide optimal accommodation for people admitted to the hospital as inpatients.

Improving medical care in the Nuba Mountains

With the current improvements, our hospital in the Nuba Mountains will be even better equipped to serve the approximately 65,000 patients it receives each year.

This allows us to offer our support to the people who are still suffering from the political turmoil and who have to flee from the constantly resurgent conflicts in the Nuba Mountains.

We will continue to assist the local population by offering basic medical care.