Health and WASH

These will ensure that "People live healthy lives with access to health care and WASH facilities, and practice health promotion based on knowledge and changed attitudes". To achieve this, SSRC will pursue improved health-seeking behaviours, prevention, and control of communicable diseases, and increased access to health and WASH service delivery to the affected population in South Sudan. The following are the components under health.

• Community Base Health (CBH): It is a global approach adapted to the local context: SSRC volunteers train community members on diseases prevention, health promotion, first aid, disaster preparedness and response. •

Emergency Health: South Sudan Red Cross provides preventive services to communities during disasters such as Covid-19, Cholera, Ebola. Among the provided services are: - - Provision of chlorine tabs for water purification, ORS, soaps, Facemasks, Sanitizers etc - Facilitate hygiene promotion trainings and campaigns. - Provision of emergency first aid and community sanitary facilities.

• First Aid: First Aid is one of the core activities of the NS, the SSRC has Emergency Action Teams, made of trained volunteers in the branches across the country, ready to support with First Aid services during both emergencies & public events. Blood Donor Recruitment and First Aid - Carries awareness on voluntary blood donation to help the sick people who need blood in the hospitals. - It supports the National Blood transfusion Services in Juba and Blood Banks in Wau and Torit to be able to safely store blood.

WASH: WASH consists mainly of awareness rising through Hygiene promotion on hygienic practices, construction of sanitation facilities at both households and institutions and the provision of clean and safe water through the construction or rehabilitation of boreholes and mass treatment of surface water.

First Aid

First Aid is one of the core activities of the NS, the SSRC has Emergency Action Teams, made of trained volunteers in the branches across the country, ready to support with First Aid services during both emergencies & public events.