GEMS Medical Clinic
South Sudan: A Desperate Need for Health Care
The country of South Sudan has almost nine million citizens...and only 120 doctors. Access to even the most basic health care is extremely limited: there aren’t enough doctors and nurses or enough facilities, not to mention medications, vaccines, and medical equipment.
Our brothers and sisters in South Sudan are dying of preventable diseases. You can make a difference.
Illnesses that have ready treatment in the United States, like malaria and acute respiratory infections, are leading causes of death in South Sudan. The citizens of this fragile region also contend with diseases such as meningitis, measles, yellow fever, and whooping cough, 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.
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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.
General Medical Clinic Donation
Custom Amount
Your donation to GEMS will provide access to this desperately needed basic healthcare.
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.
