The United Nations children agency or UNICEF in Torit trained twenty-five community mobilizers in Hai Lotuko, Inkas and Morwari B Quarter Council on Ebola disease.
The course that included Payams and county supervisors’ was to educate 250 households about the disease in Torit County, Radio Emmanuel reports.
UNICEF Torit officer Joshua Brown said the event was to sensitize communities in the state against the viral disease which spread through direct contact with infected persons.
He says awareness will be carried to other counties such as Magwi, Pageri among others in the state.
‘The main purpose of Ebola is actually to intensify awareness to the people not only in Torit, but all the areas of high risk, given the fact that currently there is an outbreak of Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo, so we want to ensure that our people know about Ebola and know how to protect themselves’, he noted.
He added that ‘very dangerous it can go from one person to another very fast because is a viral disease without cure that is why is very dangerous for us to protect ourselves, we need to ensure there tips we should follow to protect our families, currently we don’t have Ebola in South Sudan’.
While a community member Himtila Jada in Inkas area said she survived from the disease when it broke out in former Western Equatoria in 1990s.
She lamented that the disease attacked and killed all her children and husband living her alone.
According to participant Mary Nadai Michael Bertino a residence of Inkas, the training helps her to know how the killer disease spread and signs to person infected with Ebola.
She added that she can prevent herself from the disease if there is an outbreak in the state.
Nadai advised fellow state and countrywide to avoid eating bush meat, fruits, direct contact and wash hands before taking home duties.
The speakers made remarks during the awareness on Thursday in Torit.