Southern Sudan

The Role of NGOs in Health Care Delivery in the Republic Of South Sudan

Abstract

The paper identifies the role of NGOs in the health care delivery in Southern Sudan. This role is identified keeping in view the affect if the civil war that had been going on in Sudan for decades. It highlights the issues that the NGOs face in healthcare delivery and the health challenges within the community. The research relies on the secondary data research and information collection through online journals, books, and scholarly articles. This literature review gives a holistic understanding of the role of NGOs and how affective they have been in restoring the healthcare system in Southern Sudan.

Table of Contents

Introduction3

Background3

The Research Question4

Literature Review5

The Impact of War5

Deterioration of Health Conditions8

Infrastructure and provision of Medical Facilities9

Threat of Epidemic and Mortalities10

A Difficult Road Ahead13

Secondary Research and Findings14

The Data Source14

Health Promotion14

Access and Availability15

Level of Poverty15

Development Opportunities15

Social Challenges16

Level of Poverty16

Schools and Hospitals as a Priority17

Health18

Health and Nutrition20

Health Consequences of these Years of Violence21

Conclusion- The challenges25

References27

The Role of NGOs in Health Care Delivery in the Republic Of South Sudan

Introduction

A major humanitarian breakthrough came in October 2002 when the Government of Sudan and the Movement / Army Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLM / A) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that suited "unimpeded humanitarian access to all areas and for those in need, in accordance with the Agreement Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS). The ceasefire was to last from March 2003 until the summer. The prolonged conflict had numerous economic and social effects on the population, out of these impacts; the health care of the local community is one that is severely affected. The research paper seeks to understand how the 21 years civil war affected the healthcare provision system in Southern Sudan.

Background

The First Sudanese Civil War was a conflict from 1955 to 1972 between the northern and southern Sudan that called for greater regional autonomy. Half a million people died in the seventeen years of war, which can be divided into three stages: initial guerrilla warfare, the Anyanya and the Liberation Movement of Southern Sudan. However, the agreement that ended the fighting in 1972 failed completely and restarting a conflict in the north and south during the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983 - 2005) (Yongo, 2007). The period between 1955 and 2005 is sometimes considered as a single conflict with a ceasefire eleven years that separated two phases of violence. Until 1946 the British Empire ran the southern and northern Sudan as separate regions. At that time, the two areas were merged into a single administrative region as part of a British strategy applied in the Middle East (George, 1994). This act was done without consulting the southerners, who feared they were subjected to political power in the north. South Sudan was inhabited primarily by Christians and animists and SSA as culturally, while most northerners are Muslims who consider themselves culturally Arab (Yongo, 2007). From the February 1953 agreement by the United Kingdom and Egypt to allow Sudan's independence, the internal ...