VOA标准英语2014--乌干达医生援助苏丹内战的受害者

 

Ugandan Doctors Aid Victims of Sudan's Civil War 乌干达医生援助苏丹内战的受害者

GIDEL—

In Sudan's state of South Kordofan, the number of amputees as result of civil war is in the thousands, but few have access to sufficient medical help.

A small team of Ugandan doctors has been providing remote help, producing new prosthetic limbs for those in need.

In Sudan's Nuba mountains civilians² are trapped in the middle of a conflict. Government forces have staged thousands of aerial attacks since 2011.

Mother of Mercy hospital is the only fully³ functional⁴ medical facility in the Nuba mountains. Wards⁵ are over crowded. Beds line corridors, transforming them into makeshift wards.

Injured in air attack

Nine-year-old Rabe Mohammed was injured in an aerial attack and lost his right leg.

He is able to walk again because he was given a new prosthetic leg as part of a program run by a small team of Ugandan doctors. Rabe has already made drastic improvements, walking without the aid of a crutch⁶ for the first time in almost a year.

Prosthetic technician Simon Peter said Rabe's parents were away when the bomb fell on his house.

“So when they bombed ... they hit the house, and they cut off the right leg,” he said.

Peter said most victims in the Nuba Mountains were middle-aged⁷ men.

“Thirty-five [to]  40 and these are active people they meet problems when they go to look for food for their families. As a man, and most of them [amputees] are men, they go they try to defend there families first, in this process they meet sometimes, gunshots or maybe land mines,” he said.

When Rabe was injured, it took his parents hours to reach the hospital. Many people have to travel as far as 200 kilometers to receive treatment, this can take days and mean the difference between life and death. Rabe was lucky.

The project works to get help to those in the most remote areas.

With no facilities to produce prosthetic limbs inside the region, doctors take a cast and limbs are produced outside the country.

Thousands injured

An estimated 50,000 people are disabled as a result of the conflict in Sudan. South Kordofan Deputy Governor of Siliman Jaboun said most of them were hurt in bombings.

“It is a daily basis, if they are not bombing here, they are bombing in other areas and we get the reports, Delami [county] there is continuously bombing now, all these days bombing, killing⁸ civilian¹, injuring civilians and burning their houses and burning their crops,” said Jaboun.

In South Kordofan, hundreds of children like Rabe are under constant threat from attacks, hiding in caves with their families. Many children here have spent their whole lives living in war.

For now, Rabe is going back to his village, far from the hospital. One of many to face a difficult future.

1 civilian   

adj.平民的，民用的，民众的

参考例句：

• There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
• He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。

2 civilians   

平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓

参考例句：

• the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
• At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。

3 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

4 functional   

adj.为实用而设计的，具备功能的，起作用的

参考例句：

• The telephone was out of order,but is functional now.电话刚才坏了，但现在可以用了。
• The furniture is not fancy,just functional.这些家具不是摆着好看的，只是为了实用。

5 wards   

区( ward的名词复数 )； 病房； 受监护的未成年者； 被人照顾或控制的状态

参考例句：

• This hospital has 20 medical [surgical] wards. 这所医院有 20 个内科[外科]病房。
• It was a big constituency divided into three wards. 这是一个大选区，下设三个分区。

6 crutch   

n.T字形拐杖；支持，依靠，精神支柱

参考例句：

• Her religion was a crutch to her when John died.约翰死后，她在精神上依靠宗教信仰支撑住自己。
• He uses his wife as a kind of crutch because of his lack of confidence.他缺乏自信心，总把妻子当作主心骨。

7 middle-aged   

adj.中年的

参考例句：

• I noticed two middle-aged passengers.我注意到两个中年乘客。
• The new skin balm was welcome by middle-aged women.这种新护肤香膏受到了中年妇女的欢迎。

8 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。