2.4a.10 OVCI

OVCI will focus its attention on antenatal, postnatal and delivery care, as well as to child health prevention and treatment (mainly MDGs 4, 5 & 6). This project aims at implementing a new development plan with a transversal focus, consisting in the creation of an efficient mother & child health care network around Juba
and its surroundings. For this purpose, OVCI will especially develop Usratuna PHCC (one of the clinics supported by the previous BSF project) with specific ambulatory for pregnant women at risk, as a new specialized laboratory (with new testing - as HIV, syphilis, sickle cells anaemia), ultrasound testing machine,
epilepsy pharmacological treatment service (the latter already existing as the only one available in Southern Sudan, to be strengthened and expanded). Taking advantage of the network created during the previous project phase, OVCI will cooperate with the SMoH and with all the PHCCs and PHCUs of the area, with the
following long-term purpose: to reduce the maternal mortality ratio and the <5 and infant mortality and disability rates.