The
Sudanese government pledged to introduce a program to reduce the causes of
maternal mortality presented by the Ministry of Welfare and Social Security as
part of a strategy to reduce poverty in the country, in order to avoid the high
incidents of death amid expectant mothers. This does not offer a solution to
the problem, as an investigation by the Sahafa revealed that the average
maternal mortality rate in the Jabal Awliya' Hospital amounts to 5-7 per 100
cases. This rate has stabilized over the past years, and represents the general
hospital environment and lack of medical commitment and staff as a major cause
in mortality rates. The percentage of neonatal mortality lies between 10-15%,
in the Turkish hospital in the Al-Kalakila area it ranges between 7-11%, and
the maternal mortality rate lies between 8-12%. A report on reproductive health
revealed the death of 48 women daily in the country in maternity hospitals.
These
statistics are a scary indication that threatens the future of the country and
people. The applied policies are flawed, destroying crops and cattle. Women in
Sudan suffer extreme poverty, and live mostly in rural and remote areas. They
find it difficult to access health centers, especially in moments of labor,
which exposes them to the risk of death. On the one hand the rates are
significant in and outside Khartoum, on the other hand, the one able to reach
the hospital will at the latest collapse under the unsustainably high treatment
cost. Given the difficult economic situation and obscene expensiveness, almost
entirely drying out the hospitals to the lowest elements of healing!
In
the government hospitals, women and their ordinary families are burdened even
with the cost for gauze and cotton, all while waiting under the harsh and
painful conditions of pregnancy. In addition, the pregnant woman often does not
find a specialist, so she becomes an experimenting field for honor students!
The private hospitals and their deadly medical mistakes fill the pages of the
newspapers under the shade of obsessive capitalism that makes hospitals display
themselves at their best in the propagandistic media. On the inside however
they are not controlled by the state, which has licensed them regardless of
their experience, commitment and discipline, in the absence of complete
accounting. Therefore this noble profession was converted into fierce trade
that made a source of profit out of mother and child, regardless of the
sensitivity of the humanitarian situation!
Medicine
is from the indispensable interests of man, it is one of the necessities. The
Prophet (saw) has ordered it:
"A Bedouin came and said: "Oh
Messenger of Allah, shall we seek cure? He (saw) said: "Yes, Allah has not
sent down any disease without sending down its healing, known or unknown."
[Reported by Ahmad from Usamah Bin Sharik]
The
clinics and hospitals are facilities for hospitalization and medical
treatments, carried by the State in accordance with the words of the Prophet (saw):
"The Imam is a shepherd and he is
responsible for his flock."
The
administrative system of health care in the Khilafah State is based on
swiftness and ease in the delivery of health services and free treatment,
supervising the recovery period and taking into account the psychological state
of the patient and showing kindness to him. It is based on the adequacy and
efficiency of those who are in charge of its administration. The Messenger of
Allah (saw) said, as narrated by Imam Muslim in his Saheeh:
"Allah obliged kindness in everything.
If you slay, then show kindness in slaying, and if you slaughter, then show
kindness in slaughtering, restrict your blade, for your sacrifice will smell
it."
To
achieve this kindness in the attainment of interests, three qualities must be
present in the administration: speed of delivery, efficiency and ease. Since
the time of the Prophet (saw) the Islamic State was keen to provide health care
on the highest level. For example Al-Marstan al-Mansouri Hospital in Cairo was
known for its precise organization and excellent patient care, established in
682 AH to treat the king and the servant, the old and the young, the free and
the slave. This great hospital was described by Ibn Battuta as "the
describer unable to describe its excellence". It was divided into four
sections: infections, ophthalmology, surgery and women. Each and every patient
was provided with full furnishings, assigned doctors, pharmacists and servants.
The patient was provided from a large kitchen, and if uncured, he received a
grant and vesture.
Our
obligation is to renounce this failed capitalist system in health care and
other sections of society. The time has come to change it, we must work for the
application of the divine system of Islam, which addresses the problems before
they occur and spreads justice and goodness. Generations blessed with
well-being will emerge to lead the world, and spread goodness throughout the
land, and to such we invite you.
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