Juba, February 16, 2019 (SSNA) — The World Health Organization has released its 2018 report about the progress it made in some parts of the country. The report is based on improving health access, emergency wash in health facilities in conflict-affected locations, quality essential clinical health services, and improving resilience. The world health body says…
Juba, January 22, 2019 (SSNA) — South Sudan’s Drugs and Food Control Authority (DFCA) says it has banned importation and sale of all skin bleaching or lightening products, a statement obtained by the South Sudan News Agency (SSNA) shows. In the statement, DFCA’s Secretary General, Mawien Atem Mawien, explains that skin lightening products have been…
Tambura/Juba, December 18, 2018 (SSNA) — South Sudanese residents living in areas bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) say they are living in fear as the deadly disease hit the DRC, a Tambura state health minister old Eye Radio. David Simbi, the Tambura minister told the Radio that Congolese refugees were entering South Sudan…
Juba, October 5, 2018 (SSNA) — The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (MSF) has resumed full services in Maban, South Sudan. MSF suspended most of its activities after a violent attack on the organisations’ office and compound on July 23, only maintaining minimal life-saving services. A couple of weeks after the…
May 25, 2018, Geneva/Juba (SSNA) — At the 71st World Health Assembly today, 194 countries adopted a resolution on “Addressing the burden of snakebite envenoming.” This resolution is expected to provide a strong mandate for the World Health Organization secretariat to implement an ambitious snakebite ‘roadmap,’ mobilising governments and donors to respond to snakebite with…
Malakal, May 18, 2018 (SSNA) — Médecins Sans Frontières /Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is today officially opening its new hospital in Malakal town to replace a temporary field structure the organisation had been using until now. The new hospital increases the quality of health care MSF provides to all the population in the nothern part…
Juba, April 30, 2018 (SSNA) — The Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) also known as Doctors Without Borders said it medical personnel have stopped working at its healthcare clinic after a violent armed robbery was carried out against the employees. MSF explained in a statement that a group of heavily armed unknown gunmen stopped the agency’s workers…
Juba, March 17, 2018 (SSNA) — The European Union (EU) has donated eight million euros (approx. $10 million) to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to help with its humanitarian operations in South Sudan. UNICEF said the donation its personnel to provide “psychosocial support, life-saving vaccines, and nutritional supplements” services to South Sudanese children, adding…
Akobo, March 13, 2018 (SSNA) — A non-governmental organization has started its mobile medical operations in South Sudan’s remote areas where medial care is not available. The Geneva-based Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known in its English name as Doctors Without Borders gives medical cares to people who live mostly in remote locations. The agency…
Juba/Bor, February 19, 2018 (SSNA) — The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it support the health response carried out in Bor South County after the alleged food poisoning. The announcement came just a day after suspected food poisoning was reported on February 18. Reports suggested that more than 400 people were admitted at Bor…
Juba, July 20, 2017 (SSNA) — The United Nations’ health agency, the World Health Organization (WHO), will next week launch a vaccination campaign to minimize the spread of cholera, the UN said. The WHO said it will begin the campaign on July 28 and expects the process to end on August 3. The announcement comes the…
Bentiu/Juba, November 16, 2016 (SSNA) — South Sudanese living inside a UN camp in South Sudan’s Unity State are facing humanitarian problems, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) International has warned. The independent medical humanitarian agency which operates a hospital inside a Protection of Civilians (PoC) in Bentiu says there are alarming signs and that aid groups…
Juba, November 8, 2016 (SSNA) — The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised an alarm, saying cholera-related cases have spiked in the war-torn South Sudan and that close to 3,000 people have so far contracted the disease. The UN’s health arm discloses that it began monitoring the disease since July. World Health Organization South Sudan…