The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved 44 US million Dollars additional finance to boost health services, fight hunger and assist displaced people in South Sudan.
The Board also approved a grant of nine million US Dollars for emergency food crisis to expand efforts to provide food to additional 140,500 South Sudanese.
Bella Bird expressed concerned with difficulties South Sudan faces in its affected states.
She said the World Bank Group was mobilizing efforts by expanding access to much-needed basic health services and helping to meet basic food needs of poor and vulnerable populations.
Ms Bird added that the money would continue meeting health needs of vulnerable women and children for health services such as vaccination, prenatal and delivery services and responding to war related injuries and trauma.
World Bank Task Team Leader Anne Bakilana said pregnant women in some most remote areas of the country were gaining access to health facilities staffed by trained birth attendants.
She said the country now has 750 thousand IDPs at high risk of contracting communicable diseases.
The finance would help immunize children, provide anti-malarial drugs and treat basic illnesses.