St Mary’s Maternity Hospital - Khartoum, Sudan Project run by the Comboni Sisters
It is estimated that there are now more than two million southern Sudanese living in very poor conditions in and around the capital, Khartoum. It is wonderful news for them that a peace treaty has finally been signed ending years of civil war between northern and southern Sudan. However they won’t be able to return quickly to their homeland because after years of war there is little infrastructure. IRT will continue to support refugee care costs at St Mary’s Maternity Hospital.
The southern Sudanese women could not possibly afford to pay for maternity care and it is these women and their babies who now make up most of the hospital’s patients. The Comboni Sisters run the hospital and provide the nursing staff while the doctors and midwives are Sudanese. With a mix of Muslim/Christian and Arabic/African staff and patients, the hospital has for years been a means of dialogue in a country divided by ethnic and religious tensions.
IRT has raised money for vital equipment for the hospital, such as beds and equipment to set up a blood bank. It is now raising money for ante-natal care for refugee women.
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