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As part of the ongoing National COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign, vaccinators in Rumbek are crossing streams and swamps to reach cattle keepers in the remote cattle camps in Lakes State. The County Health Department (CHD) says it is impossible for the cars to reach the cattle camps located around the swampy areas that are difficult to navigate. |
The County Health Director, Mr. John Deng Machiek said the vaccinators took it upon themselves to cross the streams on foot so they can reach where many cattle keepers have not been vaccinated. |
“As you can see, we have reached this far with these cars, now its upon us to cross the streams on foot so we can reach our people with this life saving vaccines,” said Deng. |
Mr. Deng stress more on reaching remote areas especially the toich (swampy areas) before the start of the rains which will make the roads impassable. |
“We are now focusing on reaching the Toch areas before the rain season starts which will make it impossible for the team to reach like where we have, we have reached today” Deng stressed. |
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| The current vaccination campaign targets around 7,000 people in Rumbek Central County of Lakes state. “Our target is to vaccinate seven Thousand people aged 18 and above” Deng said. |
| In January this year, the National Ministry of Health, World Health Organization and UNICEF, through support from the World Bank, launched a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign following the arrival of 3.9 million vaccine doses into the country. |
Generic activities to be undertaken within the first 72 hours
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- PHEOC
South Sudan has been affected by the recurrent public health emergencies, including cholera, measles, Meningitis, Rift Valley Fever(RVF) as well as yellow fever in different parts of the country.
The country was responding to different public health emergencies through the existing emergency coordination platforms: National Task Force (NTF), technical working groups(TWG) which constitute members from different government sectors, UN agencies and national and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other partners.
To contribute to strengthening of national capacity for coordinating, the preparedness and response efforts, the Ministry of Health(MOH) of the Republic of South Sudan with support of the World Health Organization(WHO) established and officially inaugurated a public health emergency operation center (PHEOC) in October 2018. A PHEOC plays critical role in fulfilling the areas of emergency support functions of the nation, international Health Regulation (IHR-2005) obligations as well as the integrated Disease Surveillance and Response )IDSR) core functons.
