Prayer Request from Tonj

Dear Prayer Chain,

Please pray for our medical staff. Yesterday they had a horrendous day in the medical clinic. Monday is our busiest day and in the midst of seeing patients, a fleet of cars arrived carrying emergency cases from a nearby road accident. A small minivan used for public transport and definitely overpacked with people, was driving too fast (on a dirt and bumpy road) when the tyre blew out and the vehicle rolled throwing passengers in every direction. Our small clinic only has two consultation rooms, a wound care room and an observation room. All were packed with victims of the crash and then came the crowd control of family, friends and onlookers. It was chaos, and challenging to know where to start as each patient was critical and one in particular called Apoul was vomiting blood. Dennis and Margaret worked on her for more than an hour before she passed away. Please pray for the family of Apoul, she leaves behind a small son. The whole scene was quite deflating and after the emergencies were cared for the staff continued seeing the day to day patients. The accident victims were cleaned up and some referred to Wau with suspected broken bones and one had bleeding from the ear. Please pray for them as our car was not available to take them and patients were talking about not going for further treatment (70 miles on public transport) and returning home.

This leads us to ask for prayer for our new ambulance, as you can see it is desperately needed. We have raised the funds and have the ambulance ready for shipping from Dubai. Unfortunately, with the referendum last January and a new government coming in July, we have found ourselves between two systems and when we applied for exemption, it was denied without giving a reason. We are a registered organization in South Sudan and as this ambulance is 100% for the use of the community we are entitled to exemption. Our last vehicle received exemption without any issue but without exemption we face paying 33% import duty on the ambulance, a whooping $20,000! The only option now is for me to go the the Ministry of Health in Kuajok, a 5 hour drive on a very bad road, get a recommendation letter and then drive to Juba, another 17 hour drive, and reapply. So I am asking our amazing prayer warriors to hold this in prayer and boldly ask for favor on the new application. Due to prior ministry commitments I can not leave for Kuajok until after April 4th.

"God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation. Afterward they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him." James 1:12

On behalf of our team here in Tonj,

Sabet Kuj
Missionary
In Deed and Truth Ministries