Africa-Press – South-Sudan. Juba County authorities said plans were underway to build the first national maternity referral hospital in Juba’s outskirt of New site. Speaking to Juba Monitor over the weekend, Charles Joseph Wani, Juba county Commissioner said the hospital would be the first modern maternity hospital with 300 beds. The official boasted the specialty hospital, when constructed and fully equipped, will serve the whole country in providing maternal services.
“Now we are finishing the foundation level of the project, it is a big project of about three hundred beds and it is going to be modern in terms of everything, especially in terms of equipment and the workers who are going to work there and we shall make it a referral hospital at the same time,” said Wani.
He also said there were other plans to establish health care units in areas where there had been no hospitals in Juba Nabari. The official said that the hospital would help reduce the maternal mortality rate by providing access to better services. The hospital would also provide jobs as there would be a need for specialized health workers and general workers.
In December last year, Central Equatoria State Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony and other state officials launched the construction of a modern maternity hospital in Luri.
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