Chinese Government provides grant for Phase 2 of Juba Teaching Hospital Renovation and Expansion Project (Linked to Project ID#53330)

On April 10, 2019, Chinese Ambassador to South Sudan Hua Ning and Undersecretary of South Sudan's Foreign Ministry Baak Valentino Wol signed an exchange of letters to conduct a feasibility study the second phase of the expansion and modernization of South Sudan's biggest public health facility, the Juba Teaching Hospital. The feasibility study was carried out on August 14, 2019. Then, on March 20, 2021, the Chinese Government and the Government of South Sudan signed a grant agreement for Phase 2 of the Juba Teaching Hospital Renovation and Expansion Project. The Phase 2 project, with a total site area of about 2.28 hectares and a total floor area of about 16,000 square meters, includes six functional divisions: specialist outpatient division, medical technology division, inpatient division, infectious disease division, administration division and logistics support division. On August 25, 2020, the Chinese Government and the Government of South Sudan officially inaugurated a cancer screening facility Juba Teaching Hospital. Then, between March 2022 and April 2022, MOFCOM (the project financier) dispatched a group of experts to South Sudan to inspect the progress begin made through Phase 2 of the Juba Teaching Hospital Renovation and Expansion Project. Then, on July 6, 2022, the Chinese Government and the Government of South Sudan signed a project implementation agreement for Phase 2 of the Juba Teaching Hospital Renovation and Expansion Project.

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1. The Chinese project title is 朱巴教学医院改扩建二期项目. 2. The monetary value of the grant commitment for this project is unknown. This issue warrants further investigation. 3. Phase 1 of the expansion and modernization of Juba Teaching Hospital, which was also funded by the Chinese Government, was completed on November 13, 2019 (as captured via Project ID#53330). 4. Juba Teaching Hospital is the only national referral hospital in the whole country of South Sudan and it is located in Juba City, Central Equatoria State. With an estimated population of 9.86 million based on annual population growth of 3% from a population census conducted in 2008 and lack of proper functioning primary health care facilities upcountry, many South Sudanese have nowhere to go but to this national referral hospital

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