Red Cross Assisting Bor Community Access Clean Water The South Sudan Red Cross branch in Jonglei State has installed a water purification machine in most cholera affected areas of Bor County for communities to access clean water. 07 August 2015
By Jacob A. Jok *BOR, 06th August 6, 2015 [Gurtong] *–Last month, Health officials in Jonglei State declared an official cholera outbreak, after 20 patients were admitted in Bor hospital and diagnosed with the disease. Most of the patients are children below the age of 10 from Malou and Achengdiir villages. The Director of Red Cross in Jonglei State, David Gai Deer said the Red Cross society is acting in response to the State’s cholera outbreak that was declared by the Ministry of Health last month. Gai said the South Sudan Red Cross (SSRC) and the International Committee for Red Cross (ICRC) are trying to make sure that the community of Malou, a village located north west of Bor town be able to get clean water. “We brought a purification machine so that water that is direct from the river Nile can be purified and then distributed to the water centers. This is because communities of Malou get the water direct from the River Nile,” said David Gai. Malou was one of places with high number of cholera cases in Bor County which does not have access to clean water. “We have one water distribution center in Malou, we have another one in Achiengdiir and that should be able to assist the most vulnerable communities get clean water so as to prevent the outbreak of water borne diseases.” Posted in: Home <http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/CategoryView/mid/519/categoryId/1/Home.aspx> -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- 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]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14oond60XTZxsKDYz4%2BZ37S72%2BYCYOgXwksaPfErCF_%3DxWw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
