As South Sudan celebrates 10 years of independence, health care workers and officials say the health care situation in the world’s newest nation remains woefully inadequate. Facilities are few and often inaccessible, they say, and violence continues to affect health care workers and communities. “This is too small even to cover the components of quality health services that we need,” Deng told South Sudan in Focus. “What you see now is the part of this health financing covered by NGOs (nongovernmental organizations).” NGOs cover a significant portion of health care in South Sudan. “Across South Sudan, vulnerable persons continue to die from curable diseases or wounds, as access to health care remains very limited.

Source: Daily Nation July 06, 2021 01:07 UTC