Young Man Wisdom

One of the great issues that occupied the imagination of health care workers, health policymakers, and as well as a politician is equal access to health. This means wherever you are, ideally, you should have the same access to at least the basic health care. What is basic healthcare? That is a discussion for another time. However, we should not mix accessibility with affordability as these are two different concepts. There are different metrics to measure access to health but today I want to discuss two metrics in particular.   The first one is the health facility density by state. It measures the number of health facilities per 100,000 population. It is a crude way to measure and compare the availability of care facilities in a certain geographical location. This includes all type of facilities private or publicly owned. Source: OCHA Sudan     As you can see from the graph, the Northern state has the most Basic health units and Hospitals compared to its population despit...

Akhir Lahza (Arabic) Sudanese news paper reported today cases of H1N1 have reached 200 case in Sudan , according to unnamed medical resource. Only three Pilgrims returned from Mecca were diagnosed with the virus. The unnamed medical resource added that all cases were discovered in Khartoum state , Red sea state , and Juba. I guess we need to wait for official confirmation of these figures from a reliable resources, but ministry of health has bad reputation in preventing and containing epidemics. The recent Haemorrhagic fever outbreak is a good example. Related articles by Zemanta The Hajj: A perfect storm for swine flu? (cnn.com)