Mission to SOUTH SUDAN - September 2025
A four-member team of “Heart Doctors” departed from Athens on Sunday 31.8.2025 for South Sudan. With a stopover in Cairo, the team arrived the next day in the capital of South Sudan, Juba.
South Sudan is the newest country in the world, which was declared independent in 2011 and is plagued by a generalised humanitarian crisis. A very beautiful country, with kind and suffering people, warmly welcomed the team of Heart Doctors where upon hearing about their origins they were moved, as their ancestors and first immigrants who settled in Juba, at the request of the then unified Sudan, were Greeks. This event filled the team of Heart Doctors with pride and emotion, proving once again that wherever Greeks are, they are welcome and everywhere there is a piece of our homeland and history hidden.
According to senior officials of South Sudan, “Heart Doctors” is the first Greek organization to enter the country since its creation, to provide free medical assistance in isolated areas where people live in real need and do not have access to a hospital or doctor.
During the mission, the “Heart Doctors” visited the following locations around the capital of Juba:
2/9/25: Meetings with senior officials of the country, representatives of the President and the First Lady, as well as a visit to the Ministry of National Defense
3/9/25: Medical camp in New Bongo
4/9/25: Medical camp in Nyin Anyar
5/9/25: Medical camp in Gure Residential Area and HaiReferendum Residential Area
6/9/25: Medical camp in Mapau
7/9/25: Medical camp in Jebel Dinka
The organizers and escorts during the mission informed the “Heart Doctors” team that people initially did not believe that there were European doctors who would examine them and offer them free medicines, as this had never happened before.
Main childhood diseases:
Malaria, anemia, gastroenteritis, upper respiratory tract infection, skin diseases and eye diseases.
Main adult diseases:
Back pain, arthralgia, eye diseases, parasites, gastroenteritis, upper respiratory tract infection and skin diseases.
On 8.9.2025 the Heart Doctors team departed for Athens with a stopover in Cairo.
