By Mustafa Khalifa.
Ghat, 29 November 2015:
A team of eight doctors who flew in from Tripoli have been providing short-term but much . . .[restrict]need consultations and operations in the south western border town of Ghat. Working for free, they have been giving treatment in a number of areas including paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, gastro-enterology, general surgery, ophthalmology, dentistry and orthopaedics.
Ghat has seen it medical coverage collapse in recent months as supplies of medicines and medical equipment dried up, generators stopped working because of no fuel, and doctors and nurses left because of unpaid salaries. In September, the head of the local hospital warned that with departments such the obstetric clinic being forced to close, it was on the verge of collapse.
Louay Al-Gashash of the local Mercy Association told the Libya Herald that healthcare in Ghat was now a catastrophe. There was a desperate need for medical services, especially with so many displaced people in the town from other places. The Ministry of Health had to ensure the provision of medical supplies and staff, he said. The only doctors who were there were from North Korea and but they were over stretched and were having to work in fields other than their own specialisations.
People were dying because of the lack of specialists and supplies, he claimed. [/restrict]
