Carter Center Pledges Support to Sudan Elections
Posted on Wednesday, February 10 @ 00:10:00 UTC by admin |
Khartoum- Zuleikha Abdel Razeq
Carter Center has assured its support to Sudan Presidential and Parliamentary elections set for coming April through provision of 60 election monitors.
Former US President, Jimmy Carter, arrived in Khartoum last Monday on a four-day visit to Sudan, heading a delegation of the Carter Center, which is monitoring the elections process in the country, besides inspection of the health projects sponsored by the Center.
Carter met with Federal Minister of Health, Dr. Tabitha Botrous who reported that the meeting focused health cooperation between the Center and her Ministry especially in the fields of Guinea worm disease eradication as well as the disease of blindness in North and South Sudan.
Botrous requested the Center to include other diseases such as Bilharzias, Elephantiasis, Kala-azar and mental diseases as well as preliminary healthcare services.
Positively responding to the request, Carter stated that Sudan leads Africa in terms of Center's project implementation.
Meanwhile, Director to the National Program for Control of Blindness Disease, Dr. Kamal Hashim, affirmed contribution of Carter center to eradication of the Guinea worm disease and its conduction of the widest international survey of Trachoma disease in Sudan covered 15 states besides testing of 200,000 citizens majority of whom are children. He said that the center had provided $50 million, in terms of drugs and training, in support of eradicating Trachoma and River Blindness diseases, adding that construction of Meroe Dam has scaled down breeding of the Black Flies that transmit causative elements of River Blindness disease.
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