Juba, South Sudan (ICRC) - today, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has inaugurated a new Operating Theatre (OT) in Juba Military Hospital (JMH). The OT will provide medical surgeries, particularly for weapon-wounded patients.This is the first operating theatre that the ICRC has constructed from the ground up in South Sudan, which took 13 months to complete.
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After a tough mission in conflict-affected South Sudan followed by a three-week quarantine period, it was a moment of pure joy when Dr Yiu Kai Au could finally join his family and friends in Hong Kong for the traditional Dragon Boat Festival recently. Yet, it reminded him of a totally different Dragon Boat Festival ten years ago.
In 2011, Dr Au was on a humanitarian mission at Teme Hospital in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. On the very morning of the Dragon Boat Festival that year, Dr Au had to carry out as many as seven open surgeries!
His diary entry from that day reads: This is a case of a gunshot to the back, where the victim was shot in the right spine. The bullet was in the left abdominal wall, just below the skin. And from the position of the bullet, we guessed that it may have hit some vital organs in the body.We found tears in his inferior vena cava, pancreas, duodenum and stomach. I fixed all the tears one by one.