Create new health professionals in South Sudan

Summary

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.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

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.

How will this project solve this problem?

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.

Potential Long Term Impact

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.

Project Message

Kajo Keji Medical School transforms South Sudan’s health care system by increasing the number of people able to practice basic medical care. Our graduates return home with skills to improve health.
- Vidya Mahadevan, Desk Officer

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).