“The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles.” – Psalm 34:17

Yesterday we had two serious cases in the clinic. We had two children from neighboring villages who had profuse nose bleeding. A five year old boy was brought to the clinic in the evening with nose bleeding but was in stable condition. The medical team tried their best but could not control the bleeding with use of drugs or medical techniques. The child bled throughout the night until yesterday  morning. He bled for 18 hours  and lost a lot of blood and needed urgent blood transfusion. During the time for referral he had frank bloody diarrhea and he died while on oxygen due to severe anaemia.

The second case came around 1:20 pm, a child of about 6 years old was brought to the clinic with profuse nose bleeding and was losing 500mls of blood every hour. The blood was obstructing the respiratory or breathing system and complicated resuscitation. The child had a very high fever and yellow eyes. He died within 20 minutes of admission.

This was alarming to us that it might be a viral disease associated with bleeding, either yellow fever or ebola.

All the medical staff and Community Health Workers had an urgent meeting to discuss about safety measures and awareness on the cases. We referred an adult man to Wau Hospital with similar symptoms a few days ago. The Minister of Health was alerted of what is going on and he will be sending his team to do surveillance.

Please pray for the two families who lost the two children, also pray for our medical staff for protection against this disease.  Pray that God would strengthen them and encourage them as they continue to serve His people.