A Report be the longtime Cap Anamur project staff member Helene Prögler from Sudan. Helene Prögler had her first mission for Cap Anamur already in […] Read more
Sudan
Key health facts
Life expectancy at time of birth: 65 years for females, 61 years for males
Infant’s mortality per 1000 birth: 49
Doctors per 1000 inhabitants: 0.3
Cap Anamur first was engaged in Sudan from 1985 to 1992. Since 1997 up till now we are on site with our project.
Situation in the country
Since decades Sudan is stage for hostile activities between the official government and rebel groups. The separation of South-Sudan from the north in 2011 intensified the fights mainly in the border-region of South-Kordofan, which was due to questionable election results not aligned with the south, but remained under control of Khartoum. Mainly the civilians suffer from the fights between the rebels and government troops and people have to flee from their home villages and seek shelter in the caves of the Nuba-mountains. Lack of food, poor water supply and bad health care make life in the mountains a fight for survival. But an escape to adjacent South-Sudan doesn’t promise improvement, as here the people get more and more involved in a civil war after the foundation of the state.
Our target
Medical care for people who flee from war and violence to the Nuba-mountains
Our Activities
By the end of the 1990s we established a huge hospital in the middle of the Nuba-mountains, which we operate up till now and which we developed with buildings and medical facilities. We offer our patients a broad spectrum of consultation and treatment as well as the possibility to be treated stationary when severely ill and when needed we offer surgery and follow up care. Our team of doctors and nurses not only works with the patients, but permanently educates local staff in various medical disciplines. We were able to extend our care system in a circle of about 100 kilometers by 6 outposts. All together we reach about 200,000 people a year. We fill the medicines stock every six month with a large shipment. Furthermore we run vaccination campaigns and thus immunize more than 42,000 children against polio, measles, tuberculosis, diphtheria, whooping cough, hepatitis and tetanus.
Project Reports:
A disaster with announcement
How we prepare our projects for Corona Especially in countries where the health system is already weak, the corona virus that has kept us on […] Read more
Video: Hospital life in the Nuba mountains
No other project we serve as long as our project in the Nuba mountains. At the end of the 90s, we set up a hospital […] Read more
Video: Improvisation and deficit
How do you plan a hospital and a pharmacy if you can only deliver medicine twice a year? In the fourth part of our new […] Read more
Video: Work between war and peace
Sudan has been the scene of armed conflicts for years. How to Deal with bombs dropping off the hospital? In the third part of our […] Read more
Video: Hospital operation in the Nuba mountains
Rupert Neudeck described the Nuba mountains as a mysterious place, our managing director Bernd Göken himself worked for several years in our hospital and the […] Read more
Video: Nursing in the Nuba mountains
Rupert Neudeck described the Nuba Mountains as a mysterious place, our managing director Bernd Göken himself worked for several years in our hospital and the […] Read more
As an internally displaced person in the Nuba mountains
If the hope of returning home has not died yet There was no time left to pack up all belongings, to grab all the valuables […] Read more
Waylaid, robbed and wounded
Merchant Badu’s story Badu’s morning began just as usual. He woke up early, checked the goods he planned on selling at the local market and […] Read more
World Peace Day 2018
There are no winners in a war. Our employees know this first handedly, as they often travel to war countries despite the dangers, to help […] Read more