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800,000 South Sudanese May Face Reduced Access to Life-Saving Primary Health Care by June, IOM Warns
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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) warns that more than 800,000 people in South Sudan who rely on IOM for their health care may face reduced access to life-saving services by June if urgent calls for humanitarian funding are not met.
Internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees and conflict-affected populations already living in dire situations may soon face even greater danger to their lives and health due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the onset of the rainy season and floods.
Women and children, the elderly and people living with disabilities are at risk of losing access to primary health-care services. These services include maternal and child health, including the screening of children under five to detect malnutrition; sexual and reproductive health services and testing and treatment for HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis.
May 05, 2021
Students return to school in Juba, South Sudan, after more than fourteen months of COVID-19 restrictions. courtesy UNICEF/Bullen Chol
GENEVA The countrywide reopening of schools in South Sudan is a welcome step on the road to “normalcy” for youngsters, two in three of whom need humanitarian assistance, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
Describing the “joy” felt by children and aid workers as classrooms reopened on Monday after more than 14 months of COVID-19 restrictions, Mads Oyen, UNICEF’s chief of field operations, explained that going back to school was about more than just learning.
“Especially in a country like South Sudan, where we’re also faced with humanitarian emergencies in many parts of the country,” he explained. “Schools are places for children to be safe and to be protected and also to access basic services, school feeding and so on.”
800,000 South Sudanese may face reduced access to life-saving primary health care: IOM
IOM offers maternal care for mothers in Bentiu ( Photo IOM)
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM), in a statement issued Tuesday, said internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees and conflict-affected populations already living in dire situations may soon face even greater danger to their lives and health due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the onset of the rainy season and floods.
According to the agency, women and children, the elderly and people living with disabilities remains at risk of losing access to primary health-care services.
“In the past year, we have learned the hard way that when some people don’t have access to health services, everyone can be at risk,” said Jacqueline Weekers, Director of Migration Health for IOM.
Wednesday, 5 May 2021, 6:46 am
The countrywide reopening of schools in South
Sudan is a welcome step on the road to “normalcy” for
youngsters, two in three of whom need humanitarian
assistance, the UN Children’s Fund (
)
said on Tuesday.
Describing the “joy”
felt by children and aid workers as classrooms reopened on
Monday after more than 14 months of COVID-19
restrictions, Mads Oyen, UNICEF’s
chief of field operations, explained that going back to
school was about more than just
learning.
“Especially in a country like South Sudan,
where we’re also faced with humanitarian emergencies in
many parts of the country”, he explained. “Schools are