Minister Seeks More Investment In Health To Boost Cohesion
South Sudan Health Minister Michael Milly has urged the county to prioritize investment in health to boost development of other sectors in the new nation. 18 May 2013 Health Minister Michael Milly. [Gurtong | File] By James Deng Dimo WAU, 17 May 2013[Gurtong] - “In fact there is a growing tendency to consider health as one of the basic or fundamental rights which should be availed to every citizen regardless of ethnicity, sex, age, region or religion,” South Sudan National Health Minister Dr. Michael Milly said during the greater Bahr el Ghazal states conference. He said that health is first for if you are not healthy, you will not be productive, in the definition , health as the state of complete physical, mental, and socio-economic well being, insecurity can impact negatively on health in the form of mental illnesses, aggressive tendencies. He said that health is a public commodity which should be available to every citizen and it should be equitably shared and could be a unifying factor. “As many challenges like inadequate and ill equipped health facilities, poor training institutions, lack of community participation and awareness, inconsistent or unsustainable pharmaceutical supply chain, low funding budget allocated to health which is depending on donors and NGOs and weak coordination and understanding of roles by different levels of governance, how do we then promote health as a means of enhancing peaceful co-existence between our communities?” he asked. “We have to intensify the rehabilitation and construction of health training institutions at least one or two in each state and transfer of health personnel between the four states liberally if we need to address the issue of health,” Dr Milly said. He calls for the construction of tertiary health facilities in each of the four states and free exchange or referral of patients. He said that the people of greater Bahr el Ghazal states face English languages problem. This constitutes a major barrier and consequently, they cannot compete wherever there are opportunities to study medical services outside the country and English schools should be established in each of the four states. He also said that when sharing common social institutions like education and health, we promote friendship and fraternity and other social relationships. “In case of health, no patient ever forgets his or her doctor, Midwife or nurse. There is more joy when a doctor, nurse, midwife sees his or her patient who was brought in agony on a stretcher walking again on his or her feet,” said the minister. Posted in: Home, Governance, Health -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
