South Sudan health minister vows to improve health sector

JUBA – South Sudan’s Minister of Health, Yolanda Awel Deng Juach, has vowed to improve the country’s health sector.

Speaking to journalists at Juba International Airport upon arrival from Senegalese capital Dakar on Monday, Awel said the government is committed to improving primary healthcare infrastructure.

“In south Sudan, we are only dealing with primary health care, and our main focus is primary health care but there is need of surgery,” Awel told journalists.

“There is need of nursing care, those are areas that are highly ignored which is call tertiary health level.”

Awel said South Sudan will benefit a lot from symposium she attended Senegalese capital city, Dakar from 4^th to 7^th May this year.

The Symposium for African regional ministers of health brought together 29 health ministers from 47 African countries.

The minister discussed about tertiary health care system in Africa which include surgery, anesthesia, obstetric and nursing care.

“South Sudan is actually going to benefit because we are going to have partnership with mastership, the main organization that organize the mastership,” he said.

“We deal with country along the ocean and sea but since south Sudan is a landlocked country we will improve the relation with countries along the ocean and south Sudan is going to benefit.”

She said they have worked on two crucial documents that are going be endorse by African heads of states on June 2, 2022.

“We worked on another document, the Africa roadmap from 2022 to 2030 whereby Africa is actually going to be dependence on their own and they are going to improve their health system, strengthening it including like workforce,” she said.

“South Sudan was well presented, I chaired two sessions for road map and my team which was a team of expert, a surgeon and general physician where one who lead secretariat for Dakar declaration.”