Carter Center and Ministry of Health awarded 25,000 South Sudanese Pounds to Guinea worm patient in Rumbek North on Sunday.
Carter Center senior program officer, Manyiel Agup Adau says the cash is meant to engage community to report guinea worm cases for better treatment, Good News radio reports.
He calls on the local community to allow their sons and daughters who suffer guinea worm to be admitted to avoid water contamination.
‘Those who were suffering last time their responsibility is on us, and we provide for them their basic needs but the challenge is from the relatives of patients of Guinea Worm they do not want us to help. Yet we know it is our responsibility’
Monitoring and Evaluation officer, Daniel Deng Madit appreciates youth for cooperating with staff to fight the disease in the area.
‘Youth in the center were cooperating with us and we did not have any difficulties moving to the camps’, he says.
Patient Gabriel Marop Bol urges his fellow youth to stop bad behaviours against health personnel.
He explains that guinea worm is a dangerous disease with constant born pain.
‘Guinea worm it is not good the pain reaches the bones, now am happy and advising the public to report the disease if they have someone is sick and we should collaborate with the health workers’, he says.
The ceremony brought together over 100 hundred people, government officials and the community.
This is the third time for Carter Center to organised case award ceremony in Rumbek North.