A journalistic investigation reveals the most detailed details about the latest developments in the situation of ophthalmology and surgery health facilities in North Kordofan State.
El Abyad Hospital Administration: We are making continuous efforts to operate the ophthalmology department
Consultant in Ophthalmology and Surgery, Khalil Ali Ibrahim: Running the ophthalmology department of Al-Obeid Hospital is a necessity imposed by reality, and the citizens of the state inside and outside Al-Obeid and abroad must help rehabilitate the ophthalmology department. be among the motivators and personal and financial contributors for maintenance and reoperation, and we will be very committed to the shift schedule and patient interviews.
Specialist Sahar, according to Sidou: If the eye infection (viral/bacterial) is neglected, the patient may lose his eyesight completely. Therefore, the operation of the ophthalmology department of Al-Obeid Hospital helps our poor and needy families to meet a specialist without any cost and early treatment.
Observers: The recent signing between Makkah Eye Hospital and North Kordofan State Health Insurance to re-establish the service does not necessarily mean the abolition of the El Obeid Eye Hospital. Rather, Makkah Hospital should contribute to the rehabilitation of the eye department as part of the rehabilitation of the Makkah Eye Department. social responsibility, and it is possible to allocate a percentage (50%) of the costs of the five camps that Makkah wants to set up for the residents of Al-Obeid to help establish strategic infrastructure.
Director of the Health Insurance Fund, Dr. Khattab Abdeen: We pay very huge amounts to purchase the service from the health institutions working in the field of ophthalmology in the state, but unfortunately the ophthalmology department of Al-Obeid Hospital was not among them. We will provide advanced and modern equipment to the ophthalmology department of Al-Obeid Hospital in order to meet the permanent interest of all residents of the neighboring states of North Kordofan.
The Director General of Al-Obeid University Hospital in North Kordofan State, Dr. Muzamil Ahmed Mohamed Al-Safi, revealed that the administration is exerting great and continuous efforts to restart the ophthalmology department of Al-Obeid University Hospital due to its importance for patients, specialists, their deputies and other executives, adding that the work of this department is necessary, but we need the concerted efforts of all government and community efforts, as well as civil society organizations, philanthropists and businessmen in Al. -Obeid and local centers in the state in general, and for the people of the state in the diaspora, adding that there are continuous initiatives from the people of the state in the new department to install solar energy for the nursery.
Muzamil said that the departments of Al-Obeid Hospital need the integration of each other's roles and sacrifices.
For his part, Dr. Israa Dafallah Muhammad Al-Nur, General Medical Director of Al-Abyad Hospital, explained that the ophthalmology department of Al-Abyad University Hospital is considered one of the most important departments, so it is absolutely necessary to restart it at full capacity. necessary in order to localize the treatment of citizens in the state.
Dafallah said that the administration has instructed plumbing, electrical and construction technicians to determine the necessary maintenance needs and carry out the maintenance immediately. She added that the administration is in the process of establishing a work schedule for doctors and their assistant staff, marking the start of work in the current situation. She said that we have decided to resume serious work and will organize the necessary maintenance operations for the Eyes department according to the technical opinion of the engineers and the request of the specialists.
In this context, Sahar Al-Sharif, an ophthalmologist and ophthalmologist at the Council of Medical Specialties, said, according to Sidhu: “We, as the people of North Kordofan State, have a pure societal responsibility towards our people to benefit them with our medical knowledge and specializations and to benefit them with what we have learned. This concept must be removed, and it is the duty of every professional to whom the state continues to provide. He was a trader, or he was in another profession, so that he can be active in his social environment.
She added, according to Sido, that it is a matter of pleasure and joy that the ophthalmology department of Al-Abyad University Hospital is operational again at full capacity. She added that we confirm that all specialists in ophthalmology and surgery will be present. at the hospital at a rate of (100%). She said that the spread of eye diseases now requires us to confront and combat them in various ways, because it is a viral/bacterial infection if the patient does not consult a specialist immediately. possible, he risks losing his sight, therefore the reactivation of the eye hospital will help the patient to consult a specialist and receive treatment as soon as possible.
For his part, the consultant in ophthalmology and surgery, Khalil Ali Ibrahim, said: The rehabilitation and operation of the ophthalmology department of Al-Obeid University Hospital is an absolute necessity imposed by reality, to confront, combat and treat the eye diseases that have spread in Al-Obeid and other localities in North Kordofan State, neighboring states and Sudan in general.
Khalil explained that the ophthalmology department has advanced equipment that has not been used and that it has other great capacities. It is enough to rehabilitate the building and declare its operation with the administration of Al-Obeid Hospital, in order to be able to manage these enormous resources.
Khalil said that the problem now lies in the need to completely renovate the building, because ophthalmology needs a building with a high safety rate to perform delicate operations, and it must also provide advanced and modern devices that follow the technical development in modern medicine, and these devices are available in Sudan and can be imported through purchase or through partners in the process of strengthening the health system, Khalil added, but now there are devices with which work can begin if the hospital administration distributes the change. schedule to doctors and the staff who assist them, marking the beginning of the work.
Khalil said that the rehabilitation of the ophthalmology department of El Obeid University Hospital requires combined community and popular efforts within the city of El Obeid and the population of the state in general in the diaspora. It also requires the willingness of the official state authorities to tighten coordination. between the hospital administration, the North Kordofan State Health Insurance, the Federal Ministry of Health and charitable organizations, as well as us as specialist doctors: we will have financial and in-kind contributions to complete the necessary maintenance of the eyes. Department for the comfort of the population of Greater Kordofan and neighboring states.
Consultant Dr. Khalil Ibrahim confirmed that if the El Obeid Ophthalmology Hospital resumes service with all its capacities, it will be possible to perform all types of operations there according to the capacities it has, unlike all the institutions currently working there. ophthalmology in El Obeid, whether private or charitable.
Khalil Ibrahim revealed that ophthalmology specialists and their deputies will have the honor of continuing education in detecting eye diseases and working again at El Obeid Eye Hospital in such critical circumstances in which the professional and national role must be clearly emphasized because we learned in this department and received professional knowledge and qualifications. It is our duty to contribute to it out of loyalty and to preserve the history and continuity of generations.
For his part, the Director of the National Health Insurance Fund in North Kordofan State, Dr. Khattab Al-Samani Abdeen, confirmed that the insurance system provides advanced and modern equipment to keep pace with ophthalmology, as Al-Obeid Eye Hospital, if rehabilitated and put into service, will provide treatment services to half of the Sudanese population, and Khattab added: “We have the most enormous financial claims. We pay to purchase the service from health institutions working in the field of ophthalmology and surgery.” , but unfortunately, the ophthalmology department of Al-Obeid University Hospital is not among them.
He said that the letter of rehabilitation of Al-Obeid Eye Hospital destroys the expensive bills paid by the citizen, especially regarding referrals to specialists to perform delicate operations that we can settle in the state.
In the same context, observers said: The recent signing between the Makkah Eye Hospital and the North Kordofan State Health Insurance, which was attended by the governor of the state and members of his government to restore the service, does not necessarily mean the abolition of the eye hospital in El Obeid. Makkah Hospital (Al Basr Charitable Foundation) must indeed contribute to the rehabilitation of the eye department of Al-Obeid Hospital as part of social responsibility, it is possible to allocate a minimum percentage (50%) of the costs of the five camps that Makkah wants to set up for the residents of Al-Obeid to help establish a strategic infrastructure, adding that these camps are expected to cost millions of dollars, so if a part is generously allocated. , it will help all the people of North Kordofan State and other states, which represent 50% of the states in Sudan, and more than 67% of the Sudanese population.
