By Simon Deng Bor state hospital in South Sudan’s Jonglei is facing so many challenges ranging from shortage of drugs lack and qualified medics to manage various ailments amid congestion. Bol Chaw Manyang, Medical Director for Bor State Hospital told The Juba Echo in an Interview on Wednesday that they have run out of anti-malaria, […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending widespread use of the world’s first malaria vaccine, in what the UN health agency’s chief described on Wednesday as “an historic day” for the decades-long battle against the deadly disease. The vaccine is geared towards children, in sub-Saharan Africa and other regions with moderate to high transmission. The recommendation to begin using the RTS,S vaccine, is based an ongoing […]
By Staff Writer The burden of malaria is increasing in South Sudan as attention is focused on the global pandemic, COVID-19. South Sudan is a country with some of the poorest health services where diseases which are easy to treat in other parts of the world are life threatening. Malaria is deadly and remains one […]
By Staff Writer Women represent just 26 percent of those who have taken the COVID-19 vaccine in South Sudan, staying away from the exercise over a myth that the shots cause sterility. For 27-year-old Mary Thon, the vaccines are out of plan until she witnesses those who have taken the jab “giving birth in the […]
By Richard Sultan A year and a half after COVID-19 was first diagnosed in South Sudan, testing kits for the deadly virus has not yet reached some parts of the country. Pibor Administrative Area, which lies 256 kilometres from the capital Juba in the Jonglei region has a population of over 200,000 people. According to […]
By Liatile Putsoa, IOM South Sudan Media and Communications Officer Malakal – Twenty-six-year-old Nyaluok Malith was out in the fields plucking wild leaves to cook when a neighbour’s child came running, shouting, ‘Mama, come home, come home. The baby has been hurt’. Nyaluok says her heart sank immediately, even though it was not clear who […]
By Simon Deng South Sudanese have picked up on vaccination against COVID-19 with over 30,000 receiving the shots in the last two weeks, a health official said. The vaccines were first brought into the country in April. The COVAX facility provided 132,000 doses, of which only 60,000 were administered. About 71,000 were returned before expiry. […]
By Michael Tapeng South Sudan has got a new health facility set with funding from the government of Japan and supported by the World Health Organisation. The Port Health Facility handed over on Friday will ease the screening of travellers at the Juba International Airport. Speaking to journalists during the handover of the facility at […]
By Michael Tapeng South Sudan has received a consignment of 152,950 shots of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccines donated by the United States of America. The single dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines are the third batch of vaccine shipments to South Sudan through the COVAX Facility. The vaccines which arrived on Tuesday compliments […]
By Denis Ejulu At least more than 40 South Sudanese medics have graduated after completing their three-month medical Chinese language courses since June this year. Alier Nyok, Acting Director General of Juba Teaching Hospital hailed the graduates that included doctors, nurses and midwives among others upon completing the intensive Chinese language course, adding that the […]