The department of health in South Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat or SSCBS is increasing efforts in fighting covid-19 pandemic by donating personal protective equipment to four facilities in Juba Archdiocese.
The facilities include Sacred Heart Sisters Primary Health Care Centre in Kator, the Three Angles Health Centre in Kator, St Kizito in Munuki and Sacred Heart Kwörijik-Luri Primary Health Care Unite.
The donated items include liquid soaps, gloves, distributed equally to the health centres.
Speaking to CRN, Archbishop Ameyu Martin Mulla calls on every South Sudanese to fight the virus.
He says the Catholic Church formed a taskforce to fight covid-19.
‘As we come together to bless these items, we have come in order to demonstrate that we have formed a covid-19 taskforce for the Archdiocese of Juba and this taskforce is not in competition with any. It is just to complement what other people are doing in the highest level. We are doing ours at the grass root level so that those who are task to do this work will help their own brothers and sisters. The taskforce is not only for the Catholic Church people, but all the humanity, everybody. Muslims or Christians from other denominations.
South Sudan Bishops Secretariat Health Coordinator Dr Thomas Tongun Leone appreciates the Catholic Health Department for the donation.
‘We have liquid soap. We have about 80 of them. Each jerrycan contains five litters. Twenty will be in each health facility. We have the hand sanitizer, ten in each facility, we also have heavy gloves, ten for each health facility. Then we have surgical gloves, two cartons in each and we have the masks, each facility will take one. So these are the items delivered to these four health facility.
One of the nurses from Three Angles Health Centre, Sister Mehret Weldeab says the protective equipment will help all patients and medical workers in the centre.
The Catholic Church leaders were speaking during the donation on Friday in Juba.
South Sudan has registered over two hundred cases, two recoveries and one death.
COVID-19 is caused by a coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. Older adults and people who have severe underlying medical conditions like heart or lung disease or diabetes seem to be at higher risk for developing more serious complications from COVID-19 illness.