South Sudanese President Salva Kiir. FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has promised to scale up investment in health sector countrywide.
President
Kiir said an improved health sector would curb the number of mostly
government officials and rich individuals seeking treatment abroad.
He made the remark on Saturday while inaugurating the modernisation and expansion of the Juba Teaching Hospital.
President
Kiir ordered the Health and Finance ministers to scale up training of
medical workers to ensure the provision of better services.
"We need to make quality healthcare services available to all the people of South Sudan.
Absence of peace
"With
the modernisation and expansion of the country's public main hospital
(Juba Teaching Hospital), along with all the infrastructural development
projects, the landscape of health system will completely change for the
people who have been deprived of quality services," President Kiir
said.
He described access to quality health service as a
basic human right for the people of South Sudan, a country whose
medical care system has been rated the worst in the world.
The Chinese envoy to South Sudan, Mr He Xiangdong, urged President Kiir to restore peace and stability first.
"No
development can take place in the absence of peace and stability and no
peace can be sustained without development," the Chinese envoy said.
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