Monthly Medical Clinic Donation
People in South Sudan have very poor access to health care. There is a shortage of facilities and skilled health workers as well as limited supplies of medications, vaccines, and medical equipment.
According to the Ministry of Health, South Sudan has about 120 doctors and just over 100 registered nurses for an estimated population of nearly nine million people.
The country is prone to disease with meningitis, measles, yellow fever, and whooping cough. Preventable diseases such as malaria and acute respiratory infections are the leading causes of ill health. River blindness, sleeping sickness, and cholera are also common.
Women and children are particularly at risk, which contributes to South Sudan’s maternal mortality rate being the highest in the world.
People in South Sudan have very poor access to health care. There is a shortage of facilities and skilled health workers as well as limited supplies of medications, vaccines, and medical equipment.
According to the Ministry of Health, South Sudan has about 120 doctors and just over 100 registered nurses for an estimated population of nearly nine million people.
The country is prone to disease with meningitis, measles, yellow fever, and whooping cough. Preventable diseases such as malaria and acute respiratory infections are the leading causes of ill health. River blindness, sleeping sickness, and cholera are also common.
Women and children are particularly at risk, which contributes to South Sudan’s maternal mortality rate being the highest in the world.
GEMS Donations will ensure basic health care is available
Clinic Infrastructure
The outside structure has been completed. Still lacking are windows, doors, solar power, lighting, vaccine refrigeration, storage cabinets, basic furniture, beds, sinks, and running water.
Clinic Supplies/Medications
A villager has been trained as a nurse and actively supports the clinic. He is lacking a vaccine program, essential drugs, and medical supplies
Specific Health Programs designed for Women and Children
This program supplies family hygiene kits, menstrual packets, birthing and newborn kits, winter protection kits, disease protection kits and ongoing health education programs.
$25 = Mosquito nets for 10 families
$100 = Soap, Hygiene supplies and health education for 4 families
$250 = 3-month medication supply for disease prevention and treatment
$1,000 = Clinic doors, windows, and infrastructure
$25,000 = Build a health clinic