Most South Sudanese especially the returnees from the exile lack access to essential health services and one in every ten children dies at birth and before they turn five, and the rate of mothers who pass away from pregnancy complications is very high there situations where women give birth on the floor, cutting the umbilical cord of children with sticks.
Poor access to health services and a limited number of health workers and lack of access to health services have produced some of the worst health conditions in South Sudan and around 75 percent of all children deaths in South Sudan are due to preventable diseases, such as diarrhoea, malaria and pneumonia, so quick positive response is needed.
The Great Commission is helping in improving through medical outreach by educating community health workers to bring services to people and we believe this will greatly increase access to health services and increase resilience by providing essential drugs, wheelchairs for the disable and medical equipments to support the treatment of diseases and this can be done through immunization, awareness campaigns this way lives will be protected from preventable and life-threatening diseases.