Juba –To strengthen preparedness and response to public correctly being emergencies of world topic, South Sudan signed off and launched the One Well being Strategic Opinion and the 2nd Nationwide Action Opinion for Well being Security (2025-2030).The two plans are synergistic, produce on proof from the 2024 Joint Exterior Overview and integrate human, animal, and environmental correctly being to handle public correctly being threats, together with zoonotic ailments, antimicrobial resistance, and response to pure and man-made mess ups.
The paperwork had been launched and signed off by Dr Martin Elia Lomuro, Minister of Cupboard Affairs in a high-level tournament in Juba, alongside his counterparts from the Ministry of Well being, the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Catastrophe Management, Ministry of Farm animals and Fisheries, Ministry of Wildlife Conservation and Tourism, Ministry of Agriculture and Meals Security and the Ministry of Atmosphere and Forestry with participation of key correctly being fashion companions.
The begin of the One Well being Strategic Opinion and the 2nd Nationwide Action Opinion for Well being Security (2025-2030) will foster the multisectoral coordination, administrative and technical collaboration amongst animal, human and environmental correctly being sectors to handle potential zoonotic ailments and other one correctly being threats.
In his remarks for the length of the sign off tournament, Dr Lomuro acknowledged “the One Well being Strategic Opinion and the 2nd Nationwide Action Opinion for Well being Security will pork up preparedness and response to public correctly being threats, safeguarding and improving the correctly being for the communities, cattle, natural world, and atmosphere”. Dr Lomuro congratulated the Ministry of Well being and the One-Well being Department for making South Sudan proud in being the sixth nation to total the Nationwide Action Opinion for Well being Security in the Africa Situation.
Honorable Sarah Cleto Rial, the Minister of Well being appreciated the enhance bought by her Ministry to reveal such strategic plans. She further emphasized that these paperwork are the governments’ one-end centre that can handbook effective coordination in building the nation preparedness, investments in prevention, detection and management of public correctly being threats.
Dr Humphrey Karamagi, WHO Consultant for South Sudan congratulated the government of South Sudan for polishing off the Nationwide Action Planning for Well being Security at this type of time when the newly adopted World Well being Rules (IHR) amendments will attain into force. Dr Karamagi furthermore identified the Ministry of Well being for the leadership and compliance with the world correctly being security agenda and the newly amended World Well being Rules, which WHO secretariat considers as a must-come by to preparedness and response to public correctly being emergencies.
Dr Humprey Karamagi concluded his remarks by emphasizing that “the Strategic Planning is done, and this tournament has flagged us off to implementation”. All line ministries, departments and agencies represented at this nationwide tournament, from henceforth pledged to comprise these plans and embark on implementation of all the priority interventions in the two plans.
With the generous contribution of the World Bank, World Well being Group (WHO) offered the technical enhance to the one-correctly being secretariat at Ministry of Well being, which turned into once the heart of all operations and processes that generated the two strategic plans.
The nationwide launching tournament ended by laying out the formula forwards given as a) Convening the NAPHS Handy resource Mapping Forum in no later than 2 months; b) Drafting of the Annual NAPHS Operational Planning by October 2025; c) Pattern of the NAPHS implementation tracker by December 2025; and d) Convening Quarterly NAPHS implementation overview meetings as fora for growth monitoring and accountability.
