Health facilities in the region have been subjected to looting during the on-going conflict.  In addition, several local health partners were evacuated, leaving the county without a functioning health facility to provide basic services.

These dire circumstances made UN peacekeepers step in to offer aid to pregnant women suffering complications during delivery at the clinic in Leer.

Dr. Bny Agyiri, a physician with the Ghanaian battalion operating at the temporary base, explained their activities in the county.

“Personally, as a peacekeeper, it is very sad to see people dying when you can provide healthcare to them or when you can assist them as a medical doctor.”

Currently in Leer, there is no hospital, clinic or health post at the moment and GHANBATT has taken it upon themselves to help these people,” he said.

Dr. Agyiri said he has personally delivered 35 newborns with a 100 per cent survival rate.

“I want to let people know that we are here for them and that they shouldn’t hesitate to call on us any time if it is an emergency,” he said.

Mary Nyadeng, 36, who experienced complications during her delivery, was appreciative of the aid the peacekeepers at the medical clinic provided.

“The UN did something very good for us all who delivered here. Like me, I was given drips and drugs in the UN clinic. I am very pleased about that. Many thanks to the UN peacekeepers for saving my life and my child’s. My baby is now healthy and growing very well,” Nyadeng said.

She added that,

“I want this hospital to be upgraded so that the peacekeepers can continue helping us.”

Another patient, 26-year-old Maria Nyarick, also thanked GHANBATT for the aid,

“We are happy with the UN Peacekeepers because they have assisted us during our problems and they are still standing with us today. I have much appreciation for the great job they are doing.  They are protecting us and at the same time they are providing us with medical services.”

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By: citifmonline.com/Ghana

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On Thursday, 15 people died in clashes between Muslim fighters of the former Seleka militia and the Christian vigilante anti-Balaka group, it said.

Six police officers and four civilians died in an ambush on Friday.

The Central African Republic has been wracked by conflict along religious and ethnic lines since 2013.

In a statement on Saturday, the Minusca mission said “clashes between elements of the anti-Balaka and ex-Seleka caused 15 deaths and a number of wounded” in the town of Bambari, about 250km (150 miles) north-east of the capital Bangui.

It added that “six gendarmes and four civilians lost their lives on Friday morning in an ambush on the Bambari-Grimari road”.

The UN mission urged all armed groups to end “the cycle of attack and reprisal”.

Seleka rebels briefly seized power in March 2013 and deposed the Christian President Francois Bozize.

The Seleka group was itself then ousted, leading to a wave of violent reprisals against the Muslim population by the Christian anti-Balaka militia.

Thousands of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in the CAR since 2013.

More than 12,000 UN peacekeepers are deployed in the country.

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Source: BBC

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