United Nations Children Fund or UNICEF Representative in South Sudan says more than one out of ten children in the country die of diarrheal diseases and acute respiratory infections such as pneumonia before the fifth birthday.
Jonathan Veitch says during the Global Hand Washing Day celebration in Juba that such fatal trend can be drastically reduced by hand washing with soap and clean water.
More than 800 thousand children in South Sudan marked the Global Hand Washing Day through washing hands with soap and clean water in a symbolic show of how the practice is important in fighting cholera.
In 2014, South Sudan reported around 6,420 cases of cholera with 167 deaths and in 2015 this year 1,815 cases of cholera have been reported with 47 deaths.