Health providers in Abyei have created a system to guide people about where to go for medical care, emphasizing that patients should go to their local clinic before going to the MSF hospital in Agok.
From now on all patients must go to their local clinic first for their primary care, Abyei Today reported.
Most cases can be dealt within clinics like GOAL in a just a few hours, saving patients the need to go anywhere else. Deng Ajak from GOAL said their inpatient unit can look after typical cases like malaria and basic diarrhea.
If a patient needs more help they will be transferred to the specialist care of the MSF Hospital.
Abyei Today reported that the new process is to make sure that the MSF hospital can concentrate on specialized secondary care. Under normal circumstance the MSF hospital will no longer take in patients without a referral.
MSF project coordinator Elias Abi-Aad said their priority has to be for patients who have been diagnosed as severely sick by the primary clinics, and who need the special care they can provide.
So from now on the message for patients is simple: go to your local clinic first for speedy treatment and if needed they will transfer you to the MSF hospital in Agok.
Reporting by Abyei Today