Yei Hospital

Here at the compound Mama Grace is preparing to celebrate Christmas. While we know the joy of who we are celebrating there is still a side of need during this time. Please pray there would be the light of Christ in the dark places.


This is Megan: I will be telling the details of our day….(Vernon, Mike, Bishop Taban and I went to Yei Hospital)

I really don’t have an understanding of how to tell you what I saw today. This hospital is run by Norwegians People’s Aid. They have a primary care center and there is a measles care center. There is a new outbreak of measles and there are seven children there now they are treating. They have to keep them separate from everyone else because there is no cure they just need to treat the symptoms. The worse part of the hospital was the trauma and burn ward. It was so overcrowded that they just put people anywhere they could put them. What I mean by trauma and burns is that people had epilepsy had fallen into a fire and burned their bodies. Some were in motorcycle accidents. Some were victims from the Malakal incident outside of Juba that happened a couple weeks ago where about 300 people died. We were able to go through the ward with Dr. Thon who gave us an overview of each case and the conditions of the hospital.

There were 4 doctors total for too many patients to count. They don’t have the emergency meds available here. I saw darkness, infection. I saw someone who tried to commit suicide, and now he is not responding to treatment. There was a woman who was shot in her chest, but there is no surgeon to remove the bullet and all they can do is console and support her.
The boy with epilepsy-if we could just get him the meds to treat him, then he wouldn’t throw himself into the fire. The meningitis isolation ward had 2 cases. The children looked like they were between the ages of 5 and 10. They are only able to treat the symptoms and they are also trying to prevent the complications. The doctors are really doing all they can to help these people.


Seeing the people, looking at them, I see the darkness of what is inside. I found myself wanting them to cry out to the Lord in their hopelessness. I want them to see the light of His life. You think of the verse Matthew 9:12, it’s not the healthy that need a doctor, but the sick. There is encouragement and hope in what the local church is doing for the hurting and the sick as we are able to see Goli Hospital being constructed by EPC and it’s supporters.

Please continue to pray for our team as we visit Morobo today (the orphanage) and will return tomorrow.