Chinese doctors bring relief to elderly patients in Juba teaching hospital

Chinese doctors have brought enormous relief to two elderly female patients who had been suffering complicated stomach problems over long period of years in South Sudan.

By Denis Ejulu

Chinese doctors have brought enormous relief to two elderly female patients who had been suffering complicated stomach problems over long period of years in South Sudan.

Morube Patrick, a-50-year-old man who hails from the Rock city suburb of Juba, had previously moved from clinic- to -clinic in search of treatment for his ailing mother, Turufayna Nyoka,75, who suffers from Esophagitis.

Esophagitis is an inflammation of the lining of the esophagus, the tube that carries food from the throat to the stomach.

Lady luck smiled on him on Wednesday, when Gastroenterologist, Ding Yun, a member of the 12 batch of the Chinese medical team together with her South Sudanese peers in Juba Teaching Hospital, diagnosed his mother’s ailment with the support of the endoscopy machine donated by the Chinese government.

“My mother developed a certain problem, whereby her hands started shaking about 7 years ago, we moved all around but we did not get solution to her condition, then of recent she developed some sickness where they diagnosed that she has some water in her stomach at a private clinic, when we brought her home there was no improvement,” Patrick told The Dawn on Wednesday.

Patrick noted that his mother’s condition continued to deteriorate despite doctors in private clinics diagnosing her problem.

“We are very glad to the Chinese doctors for helping us in Juba teaching hospital, I have seen the doctors’ busy doing their work and I hope with their help my mother will get healed,” he disclosed.

Chinese doctor Ding prescribed free medicines for Patrick’s mother who is still admitted at the hospital.

John Ajak, 44, whose 60-year-old mother Daruka Agao, was treated in September by Chinese doctor Ding for esophageal gastrointestinal bleeding, also called gastrointestinal hemorrhage, expressed sigh of relief on seeing her condition stabilize.

“We came here two weeks ago, and she was admitted here in the hospital and then after four days she was brought to the theatre for operation. They found some wound in her chest, they made the operation and now her condition has improved,” Ajak said.

Ajak said that his mother had been complaining of persistent chest pain since 2023, adding that they came to know the severity of her condition after visiting the Chinese doctors.

“When we came here, tests were conducted and they found a different ailment,” he revealed.

Ajak on Wednesday came to get additional medicine for his mother from the Chinese doctors.

 Ochi Erineo, 28, an intern doctor working with Ding Yun said he is grateful to the latter for training him on how to operate the endoscopy machine, after having spent about six months at Juba teaching hospital.

“I have learnt a lot from working with the Chinese doctors, from the basics of preparing patients for different types of endoscopy, because there is upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy. As long as they (Chinese) are here, I will keep on training with them until I become skilled,” Erineo said.

Ding Yun, always attends to patients daily in the endoscopy room, where she diagnoses different gastric injuries.

In my opinion, some of the ailments among patients I see are due to having one meal a day, so the acid cannot flow to duodenum in time, another reason is that they like to eat too much sugary food which discharges too much acid in the stomach,” Ding said.

Ding disclosed that she attends to about 3 patients on daily basis suffering disorders in the esophagus and stomach at her workplace.

In September, she said her team tested and diagnosed about 20 patients with chronic gastritis, adding that the causes of gastritis among some of the patients were due to eating habits.

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