S. Sudanese Surgeon to Use Nansen Award to Aid War Victims

Winner of this year's UNHCR Nansen Award, South Sudanese surgeon, Evan Atar Adaha, says he will use the Award's $150,000 cash prize to upgrade his ill-equipped hospital, so he can save more lives.  Atar will be honored for two-decades of medical services to victims of war and persecution at an official ceremony Monday. Evan Atar Adha and a team of doctors, nurses and midwives work in Maban hospital in Bunj, a town of more than 200,000 people in northeastern South Sudan. ...

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