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More here“I feel happy and determined to help build my nation,” says medical trainer and founder of Kajo Keji Health Training Institute (KKHTI), Dr. Lou Louis Koboji, 32, of South Sudan.
His sentiment is only the beginning of what sets his team of doctors-in-training apart from other international responses addressing the critical need for healthcare and basic services in this war affected region.
After an independence referendum in 2011, South Sudan became the world’s newest nation, but it knows little other than civil war. In December 2013, the majority of the country plunged into violent conflict stemming from a political row between President Salva Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar. Thus, what was already a weak healthcare system has been further destroyed or neglected, leaving hundreds of thousands without medical care in a time when it’s needed most.
Founded in 2013, KKHTI seeks to fortify this fragile system by creating an accelerated way to train students in medicine for $1000 USD per student per year—one fifth of the cost of traditional medical training programs in the region.
“We do not need to send our children out of the country to get medical training,” says Koboji. “Let’s educate them locally to create sustainability for our health training program.”
