Aiming to ease health care delivery during the rainy season, UNICEF handed over four motorboats to Upper Nile State Ministry of Health officials today in Malakal.

"UNICEF donated these boats for vaccination campaign, transporting health workers to villages along the river, and for patients who need to be taken to Malakal (from neighbouring counties) for further health treatment," said UNICEF Child Protection Officer Emmanuel RetChol.

Khartoum State Minister of Environment and Water, Yousif Tebn, has denied the existence of contaminated water in state's water network. In a report he submitted to Khartoum state Council of Ministers Wednesday, Tebn said that the ministry provides technical materials and laboratory test every hour.

According to Radio Miraya  the Minister of health assured that the hospitals did not record any case of water related infections.

One month fistula treatment campaign started in Lakes State on Wednesday, with the aim of reducing fistula cases in southern Sudan. The director general of the State Ministry of Health, Achut Achut, told Radio Miraya that four women have been successfully operated in Rumbek hospital.

A medical convoy of 20 Sudanese physician provided treatment services for two days in Dar As-Salam Camp in North Darfur. More than 800 citizens benefited from the services and they performed seven successful surgeries at the local hospital, which was built for the state by the Arab League.