South Sudan: Providing life-saving emergency medical care in Jonglei state

02-08-2013 Photo gallery

Following a new upsurge of intercommunal violence at the beginning of July in Jonglei state, the ICRC deployed emergency surgical teams in Bor Hospital and Dorein, south of Pibor town. Since July 14th ICRC surgeons have operated on 93 wounded. This gallery illustrates the ICRC in action on the ground and at the hospital following this new eruption of violence.

- South Sudan. ICRC nurses take a patient to the surgery ward at Bor Hospital, where an ICRC surgical team will proceed to operate on him.
  © ICRC / C. Lepage / ss-e-00205
- South Sudan. An ICRC surgeon sterilizes the leg of a patient before starting surgery. The patient was shot during tribal clashes and stayed days in the bush before being evacuated to Bor Hospital.
  © ICRC / C. Lepage / ss-e-00201
- South Sudan. The men's ward at Bor Hospital where all the injured were hospitalized following tribal clashes in Jonglei state. About 176 wounded people were admitted to the hospital, over 80 among them with gunshot wounds.
  © ICRC / C. Lepage / ss-e-00206
- South Sudan. Upon arrival at Bor Hospital, ICRC staff help one of the wounded out of the car.
  © ICRC / C. Lepage / ss-e-00203
- Bor Hospital, South Sudan. A nurse injects an anaesthetic prior to the operation, as an ICRC surgeon looks on. The patient was shot in the leg during tribal clashes in Jonglei state.
  © ICRC / C. Lepage / ss-e-00202
- South Sudan. A wounded patient sits in the Bor Hospital corridor waiting to be treated. With hundreds of patients wounded by the sudden tribal clashes, many patients had to sit on the floor due to a lack of space and equipment.
  © ICRC / C. Lepage / ss-e-00212
- South Sudan. ICRC staff carry a patient on a stretcher to the airplane that will transport him to hospital, where he will undergo surgery.
  © ICRC / C. Lepage / ss-e-00209
- South Sudan. In the surgical ward at Bor Hospital, ICRC surgeons get ready to operate on a patient with a gunshot wound to the leg.
  © ICRC / C. Lepage / ss-e-00207
- South Sudan. ICRC staff carry a patient to the plane that will transport him to hospital.
  © ICRC / C. Lepage / ss-e-00210
- ICRC and Médecins Sans Frontières have set up temporary camp sites in Dorein, south of Pibor town, in order to tend to the wounded.
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South Sudan: Providing life-saving emergency medical care in Jonglei state

02-08-2013 Photo gallery

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