The hospital is no longer filled with children suffering from gunshot wounds and missing limbs from bomb blasts. “It is not the time and place to be pessimistic,” said Gody, director of the Bangui Paediatric Hospital for the past 16 years. A vaccination program that required cooperation from militias has succeeded in immunizing 74% of children, Somse said. Gody, 60, already has executed the first step in his plan to revive health care: He stayed. The old critical care malnutrition unit was so full that two babies, along with their mothers, all shared a single bed.

Source: bd News24 June 01, 2019 19:52 UTC