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The Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched mobile clinics to provide primary healthcare services to the returnees and refugees from Sudan.
The clinics are at Zero and Riverside transit sites in Renk town and Aweil where many people fleeing the violence are received.
MSF said the mobile clinic is part of its emergency response to a devastating situation of returnees and refugees who flee the conflict in Sudan.
Jocelyn YAPI, MSF head of mission in South Sudan said that poor shelter, water, and sanitation situation has also put these people at risk of disease outbreaks.
“Our teams are conducting around 110 medical consultations daily, treating patients suffering from acute watery diarrhea, respiratory tract infections, eye infections, malaria, and other diseases.”
She added that more than 500 people sought medical consultations from the mobile clinic during the first week of services 60% of which were the refugees and returnees from Sudan.
According to an MSF report, thousands of people are stranded in the main transit center at various locations in Renk town on a very limited basis.
“Thousands of people are stranded in the main transit center or at various locations in Renk town with very limited necessities such as shelter, water, sanitation, and food.
She stresses that more humanitarian actors should be coordinated in efforts to address the needs of those arriving from Sudan in critical conditions.
The United Nations reported over 110,000 people so far have fled the conflict in Sudan and sought refuge in South Sudan, Renk town in Upper Nile state has received around 75 percent of these returnees and refugees.