Juba, 14 Would possibly perhaps also – Performing WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, arrived in South Sudan for an legit one-day-lag to to meet key stakeholders in an effort to ramp up support for health assistance amid the continued emergencies.
Dr Ihekweazu met with the Performing Minister of Health, Honorable James Hoth Mai, humanitarian companions represented by Marie Helene Verney, Performing UN Humanitarian Coordinator, as smartly as Timo Olkkonen, European Union Ambassador to South Sudan.
Since independence, South Sudan has grappled with a complicated, protracted humanitarian disaster that is currently characterized by food insecurity, malnutrition, displacement, and the erosion of livelihoods.
The heightened political stress within the nation this one year has deepened this boom. Since March 2025, tensions escalated in Better Nile Narrate, with clashes between authorities forces and armed groups. This has led to worsening struggling and deaths with forced displacement including assault on healthcare.
There beget been eight separate incidents of assaults on health products and services since January 2025, with health workers killed, and hospitals looted. These events beget directly impacted on the salvage entry to to health products and services for thousands of civilians.
“I congratulate the healthcare workers for their commitment, compassion and courage within the offer of health provider at some stage in these refined times of disaster,” said Dr Ihekweazu. “I thank the Authorities of South Sudan for their commitment to the health and wellbeing of the folk and our companions who beget supplied mighty wished support to health sector, Together, our unified front is the closing line of protection in opposition to a preventable escalation of illness and instability. Persisted, timely support will keep traumatic‑obtained beneficial properties and safeguard regional health security.”
WHO is supporting the Ministry of Health to bring health products and services at all ranges including with provision of say operational support: deploying like a flash response groups, prepositioning clinical offers, coordinating outbreak response, and dealing facet by facet with national and humanitarian companions. WHO also insist health workers and the neighborhood to bring health products and services in traumatic-to-reach areas.
Dr Ihekweazu careworn out that health challenges continue to develop and collaborative efforts including elevated funding are required both locally and from companions to guarantee persisted provision of Health Companies and products.
