Source: International Organization for Migration
Country: South Sudan
Health
- IOM is providing primary health care to displaced people at three emergency IOM health clinics. Reproductive health services are also provided including, 15 facility based births, and 113 antenatal visits.
- IOM provided 723 routine vaccinations for children (593), pregnant women (28), women of reproductive age (44) and IPV (67) at Cathedral and SSRC. IOM is working with the Ministry of Health to receive vaccines from the cold room to support enhanced immunization services.
- Psychosocial support: PSS sessions were provided to 55 individuals, including 27 grief counselling to clients in distress as a result of violence and loss or separation from their close relatives. With support from the pastor at the Cathedral site, 2 cases of family separation were reunited.
WASH
- IOM delivered 400,000 liters of safe drinking water at the UNMISS site. 17 water points and 102 taps are installed and functional, with one tap for every 230 people.
- Daily water quality treatment monitoring for free residual chlorine, Chlorine demand and Jar Test is ongoing; results are within acceptable parameters for consumption.
Shelter - NFI
- As an interim measure while communal shelters areas in the UNMISS extension site are completed,
IOM erected temporary shelter to protect around 800 new arrivals who had been living in the open. - One communal shelter and one veranda extension at the Cathedral site was completed during the reporting period.
- In response to the influx of people into the site, camp management has adjusted site planning – 22 communal shelters rather than individual family shelters will now be erected. The design of the new site and the communal shelters has been finalized.