By Yien Gattuor Mead<\/p>\n
South Sudan Red Cross has donated 19 cartons of oral rehydration salt (ORA) to Rubkona County health facility as in-kind gesture to commemorate the International Red Cross Day, in Unity State<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Ruai Bang Teny, Head of South Sudan Red Cross, Bentiu branch, said the donation helps the health facility to save lives of people suffering from diarrhea as a result of drinking unclean water.<\/p>\n \u201cOur purpose of donating oral rehydration salt is to save lives of the most vulnerable people suffering from acute diarrhea,\u201d Teny told No.1 Citizen Daily Newspaper<\/em><\/strong> at Rubkona County health facility.<\/p>\n On 8th<\/sup> May, South Sudan Red Cross -Bentiu branch joined the rest of the world in commemorating the International Red Cross Day.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are supporting the community and we will continue to support them because it\u2019s our mandate,\u201d Teny said after participating in a cleaning exercise at Rubkona health facility.<\/p>\n Jal Kuol Malow, Rubkona County health director, welcomed the consignment, saying the medical handout came at the right time to help vulnerable children suffering from diarrhea.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a county health director, I appreciate South Sudan Red Cross for the oral rehydration salt because it will help vulnerable children who are already admitted in the health facility,\u201d Malow said.<\/p>\n Last year, South Sudan Red Cross donated washing soap, mosquito nets and blankets to Bentiu prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Yien Gattuor Mead South Sudan Red Cross has donated 19 cartons of oral rehydration salt (ORA) to Rubkona County health facility as in-kind gesture to commemorate the International Red Cross Day, in Unity State. Ruai Bang Teny, Head of South Sudan Red Cross, Bentiu branch, said the donation helps[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-unity-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13472,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13471\/revisions\/13472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}