By Jacob Onuha Nelson
Some youth of Kudo Payam in Eastern Equatoria State have called on the state government to build an isolation center at Angario Boma.
Speaking to No. 1 Citizen on Monday, Sicko Sotero Johnson, the Chairman of Kudo Payam Youth, called for an urgent need to build an isolation center in the Payam.
“We don’t have an isolation center at the moment, because to get rid of an outbreak that might occur, we need to have an isolation center,” Sotero said.
He stated that since the cholera outbreak, the community has been treating patients under the trees, which doesn’t make sense at all.
Odongi Jackson Atanasio, the clinical officer of Angario Boma, confirmed the urgent need to have an isolated center to treat patients within the communities.
“Even if we manage to handle cholera cases when there is a case of cholera outbreaks. But we still have the challenge of the isolation center,” Jackson stated.
Jackson emphasized that having an isolation center play a crucial role in combating communicable diseases during the rainy season.
“Youth need empowerment; they have to be empowered so that they have to be aware of the causative and preventive measures of communicable diseases,” Jackson noted.
The community leaders called on the state government to play its vital role to combat communicable disease in the Payam.
“The only message we would like to pass to the government is that they have to build an isolation center within the community,” Jackson urged the state government.
However, earlier this year the communities have been treating patients under the trees’ shade during the cholera outbreak in Kudo Payam.