COVID-19: South Sudan privatizes testing, travelers livid
The government of South Sudan’s National Taskforce on Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic last week directed that all travelers leaving the country will now have to go to a private medical laboratory, Med-Blue Laboratory, and pay for the test, to the chagrin of potential travelers.
Officiating during the launch of Med-Blue Laboratories on 3rd December, Vice President and Chairman National Taskforce on Coronavirus, Hussein Abdelbagi Akol, said, “Med-Blue is the only accredited private laboratory at the moment for testing travelers.”
He said the practice of public-private partnership is not the first of a kind.