Medicine Sans Frontier or MSF said it treated sixteen thousand and eighty-six children from malnutrition with the majority of cases in Upper Nile region since the conflict broke out December last year.
In its crisis update, MSF said children malnutrition represents 89 percent of the 18,125 total malnutrition admissions since 2013, adding that the current conflict affected food security, especially in Unity, Jonglei and Upper Nile States.
MSF explained that displaced communities face extreme food insecurity, relying on already fragile emergency coping mechanisms and limited outside assistance from aid agencies that are grappling with enormous logistical challenges.
The crisis update shows that rainy season from May to October is complicating aid assessment and delivery.
It highlights child malnutrition as a growing concern in South Sudan, indicating 3,669 children admitted in Leer therapeutic feeding program from May to July, 2014 compared to only 2,142 in 2013, 595 in Bentiu protection site, 352 of which were treated from severe malnutrition.
MSF also recorded 2, 339 children admitted north of Malakal suffering from severe malnutrition.
In Lankien and Yaui of Jonglei state MSF recorded an average of 325 admissions per month from January to July 2014, compared to 175 per month in 2013.