Training Workshop in Gedaref on Treating Rape Survivors

Gadaref – Sudanhorizon

The National Reproductive Health Program of the Federal Ministry of Health launched a four-day professional medical training workshop in Gedaref City, eastern Sudan, on Sunday. The workshop was organised in cooperation with the Gedaref State Ministry of Health and in partnership with the United Nations Population Fund and the Sudanese Family Planning Association.

The workshop aims to raise the efficiency of doctors in treating rape survivors and increase the centres providing the service from 5 centres to 14 centres with the participation of 36 doctors and covering the state with trained cadres.

According to a press release issued by the Federal Ministry of Health this morning on Monday, the workshop is a health response to confront gender-based violence and to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity by training health cadres in the states on clinical treatment.