The post conflict South Sudan has huge challenges in delivering health care to the population.
[1][2][3] A new measure of expected human capital calculated for 195 countries from 1990 to 2016 and defined for each birth cohort as the expected years lived from age 20 to 64 years and adjusted for educational attainment, learning or education quality, and functional health status was published by The Lancet in September 2018.
[5] The structures in health services delivery is in the order of community, primary, secondary and tertiary levels.
The health services are meant to be free and accessible to the majority of the population at the primary and secondary levels.
[8] The national ministry of health provides policy guidance, leadership, funding, monitoring and evaluation.
[10] In 2004, there were only three surgeons serving southern Sudan, with three proper hospitals, and in some areas there was just one doctor for every 500,000 people.
Most of these deaths would have been prevented if the country had good infrastructure and skilled personnel during child birth.
[16] The 2017 South Sudan famine occurred after several years of food insecurity and affected an estimated five million people, just under half the national population.