It is time to fix South Sudan’s broken healthcare system
Al Jazeera
Amid the pandemic, corruption and mismanagement continue to undermine healthcare provision in South Sudan.
At the height of the pandemic last April, I saw Facebook posts from friends and relatives in South Sudan showing top-level government officials wearing clip-on tags dubbed “virus removal cards”. The cards were said to contain chemicals that could prevent COVID-19. President Salva Kiir, his deputy, Riek Machar, defence minister Angelina Teny, and other ministers were all spotted wearing the cards. I was not entirely surprised that a clever entrepreneur was out to make money from the pandemic. In Juba, the cards were selling for between $20 and $30. Elsewhere, similar cards were being sold in Japan, Lebanon, and the Philippines.More Related News