{"id":39093,"date":"2025-08-26T12:25:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/?p=39093"},"modified":"2025-08-26T12:25:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:25:43","slug":"govt-urged-to-build-an-isolation-center-in-kudo-payam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/govt-urged-to-build-an-isolation-center-in-kudo-payam\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t urged to build an isolation center in Kudo Payam"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_39094\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39094\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39094\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kudo-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kudo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kudo-165x109.jpg 165w, https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kudo.jpg 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>A cholera isolation Centre in Kapoeta South (photo: courtesy)<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>By Jacob Onuha Nelson<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some youth of Kudo Payam in Eastern Equatoria State have called on the state government to build an isolation center at Angario Boma.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don&#8217;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,\u201d Sotero said.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that since the cholera outbreak, the community has been treating patients under the trees, which doesn\u2019t make sense at all.<\/p>\n<p>Odongi Jackson Atanasio, the clinical officer of Angario Boma, confirmed the urgent need to have an isolated center to treat patients within the communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven 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,\u201d Jackson stated.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson emphasized that having an isolation center play a crucial role in combating communicable diseases during the rainy season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYouth need empowerment; they have to be empowered so that they have to be aware of the causative and preventive measures of communicable diseases,\u201d Jackson noted.<\/p>\n<p>The community leaders called on the state government to play its vital role to combat communicable disease in the Payam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only message we would like to pass to the government is that they have to build an isolation center within the community,\u201d Jackson urged the state government.<\/p>\n<p>However, earlier this year the communities have been treating patients under the trees&#8217; shade during the cholera outbreak in Kudo Payam.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/govt-urged-to-build-an-isolation-center-in-kudo-payam\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eastern-equatoria-state","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39093","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39095,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39093\/revisions\/39095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}