The Abu Jabra Humanitarian Emergency Response Room has implemented an alternative energy project and restored power and the water supply network at Abu Jabra Rural Hospital in Sudan’s East Darfur State, with funding from the state’s Grassroots Action Council.
The initiative aims to restore essential hospital services, including laboratory operations, which had been suspended for an extended period.
Hussein Ahmed Bashir, a member of the Abu Jabra Locality Emergency Response Rooms Council, told Radio Tamazuj that the project, implemented on Tuesday with support from the East Darfur Emergency Response Rooms’ Grassroots Action Coordination Council, was among the most significant community service initiatives undertaken in the area.
“The project has made a substantial difference in people’s lives. The hospital had been operating without electricity, forcing its laboratory to shut down. It was also grappling with severe shortages of water and inadequate sanitation facilities,” Bashir said.
He explained that the intervention had addressed the major obstacles affecting the hospital’s operations, enabling the resumption of healthcare services for residents of Abu Jabra.
The project involved installing solar-powered lighting at the hospital, restoring its water supply, constructing and installing a new main entrance gate, and rehabilitating its drainage and sanitation systems.
Meanwhile, Omda Saeed Digeis, Abu Jabra’s traditional leader, commended the Humanitarian Emergency Response Room for its efforts to improve essential public services in the area.
He described the restoration of the hospital’s laboratory services as the fulfilment of a long-held aspiration among residents, who had endured prolonged disruptions to healthcare services.
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