The joint mission established that the community with a total population of 6,000 people live in seven hard to reach villages, have shortage of safe drinking water and limited access to essential health care services. However, given the limited capacity of the implementing partners on the ground, a national level multi-disciplinary team intervened for a more robust response. Implementing partners on the ground namely Trust Organization for Community Aid Agency (TOCAA) and CMA launched a rapid response to support the State Ministry of Health and collected two laboratory samples for investigation which tested negative for cholera. Over 300 suspected cases of acute watery diarrhoea and bloody diarrhea with two deaths have been reported in Kuardeang payam between week 4 and week 8 of 2019.
12 March 2019, Juba – The Ministry of Health of South Sudan, World Health Organization, and partners undertook a ground breaking joint mission on 11 March, 2019 to investigate the suspected diarrheal diseases outbreak in the remote and difficult terrain of Kuardeang payam in Fangak South.Ī multi-disciplinary team comprising of clinicians, epidemiologists, WASH, laboratory, risk communication experts conducted epidemiological, laboratory, and environmental investigations to determine the magnitude of the suspected outbreak, the size of the population at risk, identify factors fueling the spread, and initiate response and control measures to prevent further spread.
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