Some 1,773 patients were treated at a free medical camp organized by UNMIS' Pakistani Contingent at Amara Gedid village in Blue Nile State on 21 April.

Set up in the village's primary school tukuls (mud and straw huts), the camp had eight outpatient departments, a minor operating theatre, laboratory and electrocardiograph (ECG) room. The patients, who included 468 men, 617 women and 688 children, were mainly suffering from malaria, diarrhoea, upper respiratory tract infections, anaemia, worm infestation and dyspepsia.

The medical team performed blood group, blood sugar and malaria tests and provided medicine free of cost. Gifts and footballs were also distributed among the students.
As Amara Gedid is a small village with no clinic, people must travel long distances for minor medical treatment. Expressing his appreciation to UNMIS, Village Chief Mohammad Subh requested that similar assistance be provided for neighbouring villages.

Promising that the Pakistani contingent would continue its assistance, Deputy Sector Commander Lieutenant Colonel Kamal Aman Khan said such camps would be impossible without the support of local administration.