What We Do
Years ago, and at the urging of a missionary, a group of concerned U.S. citizens raised funds and built a medical facility in the remote village of Akot, South Sudan. In a few short years, the facility was abandoned by the US nonprofit to whom it was entrusted. In these years of neglect, the facility has fallen into disrepair and disuse. This resulted in many preventable deaths, mostly in children from malaria. Conditions have worsened in the area for a multitude of reasons, including the influx of migrants from the north. Around 800 are now living adjacent to the facility in the temporary shelters you can see in the attached video.
The US nonprofit, Hope and Health Akot South Sudan, was formed to support renovations and operations of this vital resource, all in cooperation with the South Sudan Lake State Ministry of Health.
UNICEF has now hired thirty-one local staff with drastically improved credentials requirements and will fund salaries. The Health Ministry will provide at least some medicines, though this allotment will almost certainly require supplementing. Also, a US physician and a young South Sudanese medical doctor have agreed to live and work there! With the addition of the doctors, it is now feasible to plan, as soon as funding allows, to build and staff and operating room to provide much needed C-sections, appendectomies, and other common surgical procedures that were not possible before.
There is an opportunity to jumpstart this facility into a sustainable hospital with qualified staff
