NEWS in brief
all suspected cholera cases. Cholera is particularly dangerous
for young children as it causes rapid and severe dehydration
due to excessive diarrhoea and vomiting.
UNICEF and partners are supporting the establishment
of Oral Rehydration points and have trained health care
providers. They have also delivered cholera treatment
supplies, including medicines, soap, protective equipment
and tents to hospitals throughout the country. In addition,
UNICEF is the lead agency in the provision of safe drinking
water in cholera-risk areas.
An estimated 30,000 internally displaced persons in the Juba
PoC site will receive the Oral Cholera Vaccination. Hygiene
promotion, including handwashing and the safe handling of
food is ongoing.
The response urgently requires additional funding to
ensure the outbreak is contained, especially as rainy season
conditions increase the risk of transmission between now
and November.
NBI delivers equipment worth USD 90,000 to the Water
Sector and University of Juba, South Sudan
Juba – On June 29, 2015 the Nile Basin Initiative
(NBI) Secretariat handed over computing and
other office equipment worth USD 90,000 to the
Ministry of Electricity, Dams, Irrigation & Water
Resources and the University of Juba in South
Sudan.
NBI Executive Director hands over equipment to Republic
of South Sudan Officials
The equipment was handed over by the Executive
Director of the NBI Secretariat John Rao Nyaoro,
HSC to Eng. Isaac Liabwel C. Yol, Under Secretary
for the Water sector and Dr. James J. Bango, Dean
of the College of Engineering and Architecture at
the University of Juba.
The Water Sector received a state of the art
hybrid power backup system, which utilizes
solar and generator power, three servers, one
photocopier/network printer, one network switch,
one Wifi- Router and three high speed processing
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workstations. The equipment
will benefit Water Sanitation
Hygiene
Information
Management System (WIMS)
Department and the Decision
Support System Unit.
The
College
of
Civil
Engineering and Architecture
received a Server Rack (42
U), UPS -1.5 KV (Rack type),
30 desktop wireless cards,
two Wifi- Routers and six air
conditioners.
The equipment was requested
for by the beneficiaries and
it is part of the NBI capacity Some of the Equipment for WIMS
& Juba University.
building program for South
Sudan, which is the latest NBI Member State having joined
in July 2012.