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The Combonis in Sudan and Lebanon – Wars no longer the focus of media attention
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
While the media are looking for news and for what is happening in the most powerful countries – see the elections in the United States –, the war continues to rage in both Sudan and Lebanon. In Sudan, fighting seems to have even intensified in Khartoum and Jazeera (the area between the Blue Nile and the White Nile) for more than a month now, while tension seems to have abated in El Obeid and Kosti. [In the picture, students of nursing in Port Sudan, CCST]
Our two Comboni communities still operating, Port Sudan and Kosti, carry on their work with a certain normality. While communications have been down in Kosti for more than two months, the situation on the ground is quieter than before, so much so that schools are reopening. In Lebanon, on the other hand, the bombardment of southern areas continues and there are reports of explosions in the north and east as well. Our formation house, however, is able to continue its academic and pastoral activities as planned. The media may forget the victims of the war, but our prayers must not turn away from their cry. (Father Diego Dalle Carbonare, mccj)
Port Sudan – The new headquarters of the Faculty of Nursing at the Comboni College of Science and Technology
In June 2022, in Khartoum, the Comboni College of Science and Technology had started the first part of the new Bachelor of Science in Nursing course. The programme, which was interrupted in the capital due to the outbreak of war in April 2023, resumed in January 2024 at a new location in Port Sudan. The College has also set up some offices within the Comboni Secondary School from which other academic programmes can be run online.
In order to launch the nursing course, an agreement with the Ministry of Health of the Red Sea State was needed, in particular to organise the clinical practice of the students carried out in the city’s hospitals.
Comboni College has also applied to the National Health and Medical Professions Council for recognition of the final degree, so that graduating nurses can register and practise their profession wherever they choose to work. A technical committee of the Council, after examining the curriculum and visiting the new premises in Port Sudan, granted recognition of the Nursing Faculty on 10th November.
The demand for nurses is great, especially in this troubled time of war, and Comboni College is responding as best it can!
(Father Jorge Naranjo, mccj)