Reference :
V-P-SS-E-01550
Date :
02/03/2021
Caption :
Akobo, County Hospital. Representatives of the ICRC and the South Sudan Red Cross on their way for a visit at the hospital facility.
Person appearing :
MARDINI, Robert (director general, ICRC)
PETITPIERRE, Valérie (head of staff, ICRC)
LOBOR, John (secretary general, South Sudan Red Cross)
LERISSON, Julien (head of delegation South Sudan, ICRC)
HALFF TAHA, Kathryn (head of Division for cooperation and coordination within the movement, ICRC)
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
From left to right: Valérie Petitpierre (head of staff, ICRC), Kathryn Halff Taha (head of cooperation and coordination within the Movement, ICRC), John Lobor (secretary general, South Sudan Red Cross), Makoto Abe (head of office in Akobo, ICRC), Robert Mardini (director-general, ICRC), and Julien Lerrisson (head of delegation in South Sudan, ICRC).
The ICRC supports 22 primary health care centers and one hospital and their staff to provide health care at community level across the country. The Covid-19 pandemic is a crisis on top of an already fragile humanitarian situation in South Sudan. In February 2021, there has been a 94 per cent increase in confirmed positive cases of Covid-19 and a 35 per cent increase in deaths caused by the novel coronavirus.
Resolution :
5472x3648
Orientation :
landscape
Colour/B&W :
colour
