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Camp to clinic: a refugee journey
Author(s) -
Hale Katherine,
Wood Nicholas J,
SheikhMohammed Mohamud
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00719.x
Subject(s) - refugee , medicine , public health , family medicine , pediatrics , geography , nursing , archaeology
The dark storm clouds on the horizon at dusk are typical of the wet season in Sudan. On this particular day the wind that normally heralds the daily drenching of our compound had abated. It almost seemed it was in reverence to Tik, an 8-year-ol Dihka girl, walking home leaning on her father and using a sticl to compensate for her stiff-legged gait. A simple leg woun fo Tik had translated into 3 weeks of painful muscle spasms as a result of tetanus. After successful treatment with diazepam, antibiotics and nutritional support; she was going home to her tent in the refugee camp. Another tent in the camp sheltered severely malnourished children receiving food and meddicine from a non-government organisation in this remote area of war-torn Sudan.