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Key highlights
Enhancing Health Access and Strengthening Responsiveness:
• From January to September 2023, more than 3.8 million people received essential health services through outpatient consultations.
• During the same period, skilled birth attendants assisted over 47,000 normal deliveries.
Preventing, Detecting and Responding to Epidemic Prone Disease Outbreaks:
• On 26th September 2023, the National Ministry of Health declared a Hepatitis E Virus outbreak in Old Fangak, Jonglei State and Greater Pibor Administrative Area, after 3 out of 13 samples tested positive for HEV. The outbreak has affected 63 people and caused 12 deaths, with a case fatality rate of 19%.
• In 2023, a total of 6,030 cases and 145 deaths related to cholera have been reported, with a case fatality rate of 2.4%.
• As of the end of September 2023, South Sudan has received 287,351 individuals (66,000 households) who have entered the country since 16 April 2023.
Providing Quality Essential Clinical Health Services:
• Since January 2023, stabilization centers have treated 6,165 children with severe acute malnutrition and complications.
• Between January and September 2023, around 210 survivors of sexual and gender-based violence received clinical management of rape services.
**Improving Resilience- Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MPHSS)
• About 82,198 people in conflict affected areas received MPHSS services from January to September 2023.