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Sudan

Health Cluster Coordination Meeting, 27 July 2023 (Virtual meeting)

Attachments

Update by UNFPA,

  • Supporting 10 EmONC facilities in Khartoum with fuel supplies.
  • The maternity mortality surveillance was run before the crisis by the FMOH and supported by UNFPA. Currently the system is dysfunctional and UNFPA is conducting several meetings with stakeholders to figure out way to reactivate the system (timeline?).
  • UNFPA in Gezira state is working with WHO and OCHA on mapping the availability of health services per facility per locality to coordinate and mobilize the partners response.
  • In Darfur region there is disrupted access to health services due to the security situation augmented with supplies stock out and shortage and staff payment delay. There are few health facilities working now either by community initiatives or organization support, but they are not covering the huge needs. Efforts are in place to coordinate to deliver the IARH kits to Darfur and Kordofan states.
  • The procurement of lifesaving medicines including Misoprostol and Oxytocin is in pipeline expected to reach the country within the upcoming weeks. Agreements with National Medical Supplies Fund to have three hubs to cover Eastern, Central and Western zones.
  • The first round of the CMR basic training was conducted in Gezira state with fair representation from health care providers from Medani, Elmanagil, and Ganoub Elgezira localities (22 HCP), Also five health facilities received medicines from Kit3 to cover the needs of the SGBV survivors.
  • Planned Response:
  • -Provision of Mobile clinic in Gezira, Kassala, Gedarif, Blue Nile, White Nile and West Darfur states based on the of the level of the security.
  • -Deployment of community midwives in the gathering points.
  • -Deployment of care providers in Gezira and West Darfur (included in the IPs plans and pending the improvement of the security).
  • -Distribution of the supplies for the rest of the affected states, UNFPA is working with partners to explore all possible opportunities to deliver the supplies to the affected states.

AWD update,

  • After 10days of communication blackout with the affected locality ( Dilling in South Darfur), the communication was re-established with health staff reporting reduced number of daily AWD cases t0 2-4 and a total of 300 cases and 7 deaths (CFR 2.3%). Two RDTs are positive for the 0139-cholera strain which is very rare in the African continent and in need for laboratory confirmation, however, transporting the samples is not feasible for the time being due to access constrains and the need for controlled environment. In addition, there is a shortage of the Cary-Blair medium need for transporting the sample. WHO is procuring 5,000 cholera RDTs and 5,000 Cary-Blair media arriving nest week to country for distribution across the states.