Health Minister Warns Of Diseases Outbreak In Overcrowded POC Sites South Sudan Minister of health, Dr. Riek Gai Kok has warned that overcrowding of internally displaced people in the camps in Wau will lead to a breakout of water borne-diseases as it is a rainy season. 11 July 2016 [image: Health Minister Warns Of Diseases Outbreak In Overcrowded POC Sites] South Sudan Minister of health, Dr. Riek Gai Kok [File photo]
By James Deng Dimo * WAU, 10 July, 2016 [Gurtong] - *The internally displaced persons are among those who took shelter at the UN camp and churches in Wau when the area was attacked by an unknown group of people two weeks ago. “Look, our people are overcrowding at these POCs despite the calm in the town, there is no need for them to keep on staying in these areas because since it is now a rainy season, there are a lot of water borne diseases which may breakout. And if this happens in such an overcrowded place, it would be very dangerous and difficult to be control,” said Kok. He gave an example of camps based in the capital Juba where the rate of HIV/AIDS has increased since the camps were opened. “The POCs within the capital Juba, by the time our people came in, they were not a lot of people infected with HIV/Aids, but now at the UN camps in Juba, the percentage of those infected with the HIV is more than 70 percent out of the current population serving in the camps,” he said. The minister also warned that lack of enough health facilities like bathrooms for women and thousands sharing latrines would be very dangerous. He called on the IDPs to return to their homes as the situation is now calm rather than detaining themselves in overcrowded places with poor facilities and lack of food. Posted in: Home <http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/CategoryView/mid/519/categoryId/1/Home.aspx> - See more at: http://gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ID/19614/Default.aspx#sthash.Vs6HKSix.dpuf -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14opg1auzrPfF-69eWj1ivfnPXAsXYYB8Q%2BwgGatY9oG4%2BQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
