Press Release
Death Chambers!
(Translated)

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:

«جَاءَ أَعْرَابِيٌّ فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، أَنَتَدَاوَى؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ، فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ لَمْ يُنْزِلْ دَاءً إِلاَّ أَنْزَلَ لَهُ شِفَاءً، عَلِمَهُ مَنْ عَلِمَهُ»

"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):

«الإِمَامُ رَاعٍ وَهُوَ وَمَسْؤُولٌ عَنْ رَعِيَّتِهِ»

"The Imam is a shepherd and he is responsible for his flock."

The administrative system of health care in the Khilafah "Caliphate" 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. Also the kindness is necessary in these issues.

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 others 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.

Official Spokeswoman of Hizb ut Tahrir

Wilayah Sudan