The International Medical Corps medical training school creates new health professionals in South Sudan, where fewer than 200 doctors are expected to serve 10 million people.
IMCs’ school increases the number of mid-level health professionals in South Sudan, which has one of the lowest health indicators in the world. We are offering both nursing and midwife programs, located near the Ugandan border in Kajo Keji County, where we support a civil hospital that services 220,000 residents. In South Sudan, where USAID estimates one in four children dies before the age of five, the medical students are studying to provide desperately needed services.
We are able to improve health by increasing the number of qualified professionals trained to address basic health care, safe labor practices, infectious disease prevention and treatment. We are providing students with medical textbooks and supplies.
Through coordination with the Ministry of Health, candidates are selected from throughout South Sudan so that graduates can cover a wide geographic range when they return home to provide services.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
