Medical supplies donated to Juba Teaching Hospital. (Photo: South Sudan Embassy in Beijing).

South Korean charity Lee Tae Seok Foundation has donated medical supplies worth of 400,000 U.S. dollars to Juba Teaching Hospital.

The charity’s Chief Executive Officer Goo Soo Hwan announced the donation at a ceremony in the public hospital this morning.

According to the South Sudan diplomatic mission in Beijing, the delegation arrived in South Sudan on Sunday and was received by the Minister of Health Yolanda Awel Deng and other senior officials.

“Today in a well-organized and colorful event in Juba, the delegation witnessed a formal delivery ceremony of valuable medical supplies worth 400,000USD donated by the same Korean foundation to the Government and People of South Sudan,” the embassy said.

The South Korean delegation is expected to meet with vice presidents Dr. James Wani Igga and Hussein Abdelbagi Akol, who lead the Economic and Service Clusters respectively.

They will also meet Acting Foreign Minister Deng Dau Deng, the Minister of General Education Hon. Awut Deng Achuil, and SPLM Secretary. General Cde. Peter Lam Both.

The group will finally wind up their trip with a visit to the Tonj region of Warrap State to meet with state authorities and the catholic church and Late John Lee School in the area.

The foundation is named after the late Father John Lee, also known as Tae Seok Lee, a Korean priest and medical doctor, who worked in the Tonj region to help the most vulnerable people, in the 2000s.

In 2010, he passed away at the age of 48 years after suffering cancer. In his decade-long service in Tonj, he had built schools and healthcare centers.