Geneva — The following document was released by the International Committee of the Red Cross on 6 January 1999: Since the signing of a cease-fire in Guinea-Bissau in early November 1998, the ICRC has begun to rehabilitate the country's main medical facility, the 500-bed Simao Mendes Central Hospital, which employs 600 people in the capital, Bissau.
The hospital was hit by artillery fire when clashes broke out between government troops and rebels on the outskirts of the capital on 7 June. The buildings housing the operating theatre, the maternity and radiology departments and the administration were the most severely damaged and these services had to be moved into makeshift premises. The radiology building was destroyed by a shell but the equipment is still in working order.
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