Organization Profile

Vision

To establish and maintain a vibrant and cohesive

orthopaedic community that is well placed to

deliver quality, accessible, and affordable care.

Mission and Strategy

To deliver a sustainable and quality access to

orthopaedic care across all corners of the nation

through promoting excellence in orthopaedic care,

education, and research, all centered around the

principles of global surgery.

Our Core Values:

• Lead by example

• Cherish teamwork

• Value integrity and responsibility

• Put patients first

• Employ evidence-based orthopaedics

• Maintain professional excellence

Eastern Pearl Business Center

Ministries Road Juba, South

Sudan

+211 9218 16656

+211 9241 64164

ssorthotraumasociety@gmail.com

Introduction The South Sudan Orthopaedics and Trauma Society (SOTS) is a professional

association that brings together Orthopaedic surgeons, orthopaedic surgery

trainees, and diverse medical professionals with interest in the field. It is a not-for-

profit organisation that focuses on unifying these roles towards the common goal

of an enhanced patient care, healthcare professionals’ welfare, and transformed

lives. Our society considers access to orthopaedic care a basic human right. The

society is leading a strategic endeavour to place itself at the center of this ambitious

drive.

Background The Society was established in June 2021 as a brainchild of a small group of

orthopaedic surgeons. South Sudan emerged from a protracted conflict that lasted

about half a century. The conflict resulted in lack of basic infrastructure and

services; healthcare included. On gaining its independence in 2011, two foreign-

trained South Sudanese Orthopaedic surgeons returned to the Country and

formed the nucleus of the practice. The number increased to 10 in 2021, the group

that established the Society. This group was brought together by a common

understanding of the problem of orthopaedic care in the Country and the desire to

find ways to solve them. The South Sudan Orthopaedics and Trauma Society is a

registered charitable organisation in South Sudan.

Vision Our vision is to establish and maintain a vibrant and cohesive orthopaedic

community that is well placed to deliver quality, accessible, and affordable care.

We work to safeguard a productive South Sudan that is that is free from

musculoskeletal disabilities.

Mission and Strategy Our mission is to deliver a sustainable and quality access to orthopaedic care across

all corners of the nation. We want to achieve this through promoting excellence in

orthopaedic care, education, and research that are centred around the principles of

global surgery of improved and equitable surgical care.

Core Values

Our core values represent the society’s DNA. Through prescribing to these

principles, we aim to achieve a united society that promotes, with integrity, the

welfare of the South Sudanese people. The following are our guiding values:

• Lead by example

• Cherish teamwork

• Value integrity and responsibility

• Put patients first

• Employ evidence-based orthopaedics

• Professional excellence

Objectives:

• To promote orthopaedic education, training, and research.

• To promote leadership and professional standards among the South Sudanese

orthopaedic community.

• To enhance an equitable and quality access to orthopaedic care among South

Sudanese.

• To advocate and foster strong relationships with the Government, NGOs,

donor partners, healthcare institutions, medical colleges, and medical

professional societies with the sole purpose of promoting orthopaedic care in

the country.

Why Partner with us Partnerships and teamwork constitute a core value upon which our organisation

was built. The society has in its membership a group of highly trained technically

oriented professionals who can deliver in both resourceful and resource restrained

settings. Our strategic aim is to combine our technical knowhow with the

humanitarian work experience of NGO agencies to deliver quality and accessible

orthopaedic care to South Sudanese countrywide. The group brings with it the

advantage of being homegrown and privy to the local cultural context of South

Sudan.