Sudan: West Darfur Camps Suffer From Lack of Medicines

16 February 2014

El Geneina — The population of the ten camps for the displaced in El Geneina locality, West Darfur, are suffering from a deterioration in health services and a lack of medicines.

One of the camps sheikhs explained to Radio Dabanga that the people have been suffering from a shortage of medicines in the camps' health centres for more than six months. The health centres provide them with prescriptions. The people then have to buy the medicines from the commercial pharmacies in El Geneina city.

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