Central Equatoria bans selling of yellow fever cards

The State Ministry of Health has banned selling yellow fever cards by individuals at Juba International Airport unless those individuals are first vaccinated, according to a ministerial order from the state minister of health in Central Equatoria.

The State Ministry of Health has banned selling yellow fever cards by individuals at Juba International Airport unless those individuals are first vaccinated, according to a ministerial order from the state minister of health in Central Equatoria.

The order states that yellow fever cards are only to be issued by the Central Equatoria Ministry of Health.

Radio Tamazuj reported on 3 July 2015 that individuals at Juba Airport were selling of yellow fever cards to people who had not been vaccinated.

“I went to Ministry of Health to get vaccinated against yellow fever and get the card but I was told that they got finished but was referred to some persons at Juba International Airport where I got only the card and paid 150 SSP,” a traveler told Radio Tamazuj in July.