South Sudan Crisis Threatens Development

The 500-bed Juba Teaching Hospital is the biggest hospital in South Sudan, but it's struggling.  Hospital General Director Wani Lolik Lado recently took a reporter through a male ward where patients lined up in beds in an open room were being treated under rotating ceiling fans. “We don't have sophisticated equipment; we are dealing within our capabilities,” he says.  “Compare it to your hospitals.” Most of the medications and supplies, he said, are provided...

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