International Organization for Migration or IOM is now providing primary health care and other services in Baggari County of Wau State after cut off due to insecurity for over a year.
In a statement, IOM says it regained access to the area in August 2017 and distributed shelters and relief items before other agencies could reach in October.
Food insecurity and malnutrition in Baggari are among the highest in all parts of South Sudan due to restricted access and limitations on livelihoods, it adds.
IOM says it opened a clinic in Farajallah area of Baggari on December 11 and hired five people from the community to operate it.
The statement explains that IOM’s medical team in Wau visits the clinic once a week to refill supplies and vaccines, maintain it and train the officers.
Many people are arriving at the clinic exhausted, some walk as long as four hours from remote areas, says Mary Alai, IOM Migration Health Officer in Wau.
She discloses a plan to conduct outreach missions to remote areas to offer services to prevent a further deterioration of health conditions.
Since December 2017, the clinic has conducted over 970 consultations and seen an increase in the number of consultations in remote areas.