UNMISS supports upgrade of Kuajok Hospital

23 Mar 2015

UNMISS supports upgrade of Kuajok Hospital

20 March 2015- Peace was a vital pre-requisite necessary for development to take place in any society, the acting Warrap Governor, Akech Tong Aleu, said in the state capital Kuajok today.

Mr. Tong was speaking at a ceremony during which UNMISS handed over a number of projects aimed at upgrading Kuajok hospital.

Using Quick Impact Project funds, the mission constructed water points and a pit latrine. Implemented by Lukluk Community Association for Development, the project cost $90,000.

“Warrap State is getting many developmental projects and assistance from UNMISS and other international organizations because it is peaceful,” said Mr. Tong, who urged South Sudanese citizens to choose peace.

“UNMISS support to Warrap State will not be forgotten because the hospital now has an universal anesthesia machine with one vaporizer including one oxygen concentrator, one vaporizer-halothane or isoflurane, oxygen monitoring and alarm system and bellow 1 breathing circuit,” he noted.

The acting Governor said previously, residents of the state had to take patients to neighbouring Western Bahr El-Ghazal state capital Wau for further treatment, but with the upgrades, this would no longer be necessary.

State Minister of Health Nyanawaut Mayen commended the mission’s support and said the upgrades had made the facility “a proper hospital”.

“Today, this hospital has adequate light specifically at the general ward,” he said. “Patients have access to safe and clean drinking water, theater services and facilities are available and a new two-door pit latrine will improve sanitary conditions here.”

UNMISS Warrap State Coordinator Leda Limann called on the South Sudan people to embrace peace for growth and development.

“The current UNMISS mandate doesn’t have capacity building but still Warrap State is one of three states to get extra funds under its Quick Impact Projects which were used to upgrade Kuajok Hospital successfully,” she said.

She listed other projects the mission had undertaken in the state including construction and rehabilitation of roads, installation of water points around Kuajok hospital and building of schools to ease enrolment crisis at secondary schools in Kuajok.