Feedback on the multi-year project (2019-2021)

Since 2019, PSF Switzerland has recorded encouraging results, confirming its intervention strategy: this project has highlighted the need to combine financial support for the purchase of quality medicines, technical support, training and professionalisation of local health staff.

The balance sheet for the past three years is positive overall, despite the difficulties caused by the Covid-19 crisis. Between 2019 and 2020, CHF 26,500 was sent to finance the purchase of medicines. In 2021, CHF 30,000 was sent, divided between the financing of medicines, medical equipment and support for the salaries of health staff. More than 6,000 patients have received the medicines they need for their health.

Relations with the CSSV and ASASE were excellent, with regular feedback from the field. All the planned activities were carried out, despite the constraints linked to the management of the project. Indeed, the security conditions in South Sudan do not allow PSF Switzerland to send a volunteer pharmacist out in the field. In addition, there is a lack of security due to the fighting, even though this mainly concerns the nomadic cattle breeders who settle in the region during the dry season. In addition, the health staff has to face the challenge of being replaced in case of illness or leave in order to continue treating patients.

Capacity building of local health staff, a central element of the centre’s empowerment, has focused on the prevention and management of patients suffering from HIV and Ebola, diseases that are causing a significant number of deaths in the region.

The people in charge of the centre  were trained to recognise the symptoms of the different diseases and to be able to listen and empathise in order to improve the quality of care of the ailing person. Training on sanitation, drinking water treatment and personal hygiene was given to members of the village communities surrounding the centre, with the aim of preventing diseases such as cholera, enteric fever and common diarrhoeal diseases among children.