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Transport and communication:

34 cars (purchased more than 10 years ago & o�en off-road), providing a current non-
efficient network for transporta�on and this may affect nega�vely the system quality indica-
tors. In each state a computer, a scanner, a fax and a telephone services were made available.
Na�onal Medical Officers cars are provided with radio sets.

The number of the addi�onal zero repor�ng sites, which were included into the system were
update and expanded during 2018 to 756 sites.

It is worth men�oning that for nomadic popula�ons, insecure and hard to reach areas com-
munity volunteers were iden�fied to report any paralysis or weakness in any child in their
communi�es to the relevant surveillance officer near to their places The surveillance officer

will then con�nue the job as per the guidelines in the nearest relevant health unit.

Preparedness for importa�on:

State plans for early preparedness for picking any importa�on and containing it were up-
dated for each state and put into real implementa�on by the states authori�es in January
2018. The states and na�onal plans were reviewed during the situa�on exercises.

(Table -2): Active visits sites by states in Sudan year 2018

States State Code High Median Low Total
priority priority priority
Blue Nile BNI 5 5 12 22
Central Darfur CDA 3 3 3 9
East Darfur EDA 3 5 8 16
Gedarif GED 6 4 15 25
Gezira GEZ 14 8 19 41
Kassala KAS 5 4 15 24
Khartoum KHA 20 33 9 62
North Darfur NDA 3 6 5 14
North kordofan NKO 3 3 19 25
Northern NOR 6 6 18 30
Red Sea RED 3 7 18 28
River Nile RNI 4 4 6 14
Sennar SEN 4 3 13 20
South Darfur SDA 5 7 12 24
South Kordofan SKO 6 3 7 16
West Kordofan WKO 3 4 7 14

West Darfur WDA 3 4 13 20
White Nile WNI 4 4 11 19
TOTAL SUDAN SUD 100 113 210 423