Afrigather Juba, 5 April 2022 – Two years ago on 5 April 2020, South Sudan recorded its first COVID-19 case. The virus changed into first declared in Juba sooner than spreading to varied locations. Up to now, the nation has recorded 17 144 cases and 138 deaths.
“South Sudan with toughen from companions since the birth of COVID-19 pandemic has been relentlessly enforcing mandatory response measures at the side of bettering treatment making an try out, surveillance and vaccination, these measures hang so some distance helped in slowing the transmission and assign lives of many”, acknowledged Dr John Rumunu, the Director-Total of Preventive Health Companies and products, Ministry of Health, Republic of South Sudan. “We shall ceaselessly work with our companions to be particular that the pandemic is ended”.
The World Health Organization (WHO) continues to toughen the nation in strengthening key pandemic response measures similar to surveillance, making an try out, and treatment. At some point soon of the pandemic, WHO has been offering technical steering to facilitate all well being companions in handing over needed scientific presents and instruments to the nation to wrestle the virus.
From one licensed making an try out laboratory within the major 6 months of the pandemic, South Sudan presently has a legitimate community of 32 GeneXpert machines repurposed to test COVID-19 and over 250 well being products and services in faraway settings that exercise antigen fleet diagnostic assessments (Ag RDTs) to detect for the presence of COVID-19 amongst the communities, at the side of in refugee camps and IDP settlements.
The nation has begun producing oxygen following the winning installation of the nation’s first oxygen plant at Juba Teaching Health facility. To boot as, South Sudan upgraded its Public Health Emergency Operations Center with share two expansion of the constructing. The center changed into also equipped with hardware and system to acknowledge promptly and successfully to public well being dangers and emergencies of global train.
“We’ve been on the forefront of the efforts to thrust abet this pandemic and proceed to toughen the complete efforts the nationwide authorities are endeavor to successfully take care of COVID-19 and defend people gain”, acknowledged Dr Fabian Ndenzako, WHO Handbook a.i. in South Sudan.
Vaccination remains a noteworthy weapon in opposition to this pandemic. WHO is working with accomplice organizations to step up the uptake within the nation. Up to now over 500 000 people had been fully vaccinated. Extra efforts are ongoing to form bigger the vaccination efforts toward the broader inhabitants to provide protection to them from the chance of extreme illness and loss of life.
“COVID-19 has pushed us to the limit. But it has also demonstrated the importance of preparedness to acknowledge successfully to well being emergencies. We enormously cherish the toughen of our companions, who had been the backbone of the COVID-19 response within the nation”.
“The past two years had been extremely now no longer easy, however we’ve learned needed public well being lessons. We’re emerging stronger and pause up for bolstering and bettering the well being system to be extra resilient to future emergencies”, acknowledged Dr Ndenzako.
