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ICRC to inaugurate new emergency ward in Lokichoggio

    NAIROBI

    The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will inaugurate a new emergency ward in its Lopiding field hospital in Lokichoggio, northern Kenya, on the border with Sudan. In a statement, ICRC said the ward has 20 beds and a five-bed intensive care unit and will be manned by two doctors and 12 nurses. "Lopiding is the best-equipped medical facility in this
    far-off border region," ICRC's medical coordinator Pierre Gratzl said.

    "But it is a field hospital meant above all to provide care for surgical patients and war-wounded from Sudan. Of course, in the past we also treated local emergency cases."

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