Another Side of Sudan Doctor Kawahara's challenge
Photographs and written Junji Naito
About 6.6 times Japan and Republic of Sudans that have country in continental maximum Africa.
Even a long-term civil war over two degrees has suffered immediately before that though it
became independent of joint rule of Britain and Egypt in 1956.
In the south north of a vast country, the religion is different, the rest is different, and
various tribes exist together, too.
In the north, the central city is Khartoum (capital) in Islam on Friday on holiday.
In the south, the central city is a jubbah on the Christianity Sunday to the south chiefly holiday.
The dispute continues in west Darfur now though the inclusive peace accord of the south north
civil war was approved in January, 2005.
There is a doctor who continues the medical treatment aggressively in Sudan that.
His name is Naoyuki Kawahara, and 42 years old.
To a Sudanese embassy going for one's post as medical affairs of a Japanese embassy in
Tanzania in 1998, and continuously.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs medical affairs is resigned to see the current state of Sudan
as medical affairs and to see a patient directly in January, 2005.
It is in April, 2005 that the activity only of the medical licence acquired in Sudan began.
"NPO Rocinantes" is established in May, 2006.
The Roshinantes clinic is established in a small village named sheriff Hasabarra in the
vicinity of the Republic of Eritrea border that left for the southeast from capital
Khartoum in March, 2007 at about 500km.
The meaning of the clinic establishment in this village where a lot of malaria
appearances of disease are doctorless villages compared with another region is large.
The diagnosis and treatment continues from the morning to midnight. It goes to the round
examination when having time to spare.
It is a female figure to suffer from lying malaria again in the bed there.
Not only the examination of the clinic but also a used medical equipment and a used ambulance
of Japan are used, and his activity is enhanced, cooperates about the pediatrics department
medical treatment, and is exchanged with the protection class in Japan.
Medical treatment training invitation to doctor Sudan's of nurse Japan. It is opposite and an
acceptance to local training in Japanese medical student's Sudan.
Afforestation activity of Deits (date palm) with Sudanese northern part Meroe
It is a approach on the most important water quality purification. challenge to an excellent
kenaf farm (plant that becomes a paper raw material) and sick prevent vitality to grope for
industry in land made a desert
It works jointly in wide shape like the medical treatment, the environment, agriculture, the
culture, and the education, etc. with people in Sudan.
It strolls in the village at intervals of the diagnosis and treatment.
Villagers who take a rest under the shadow of a tree call it with a smile.
｢Doctor Kawahara ･･･ You are a good fellow ･･･ It is the highest friend. ｣
The enhancement feeling permeates and extends to a tired body.
Doctor Kawahara's challenge challenge continues today every day when each one
is devotedly examined.
Sudan that might not be notorious excluding Darfur dispute.
In reality from which it is deprived of life in civil war and dispute
"Another Side of Sudan" that saves an individual life is here.
