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South Sudan obtains over 280,000 vaccine doses to tackle cholera

Traders at Muthurwa market in Nairobi sell food items next to flowing sewage. [File, Standard]

South Sudan, with support from the World Health Organization (WHO), announced on Saturday that it has secured more than 282,000 doses of oral cholera vaccine (OCV) to carry out vaccination campaigns in areas identified as cholera transmission hotspots.

The Ministry of Health said that the vaccines will be strategically deployed to Upper Nile State and other priority locations.

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