Medicine Sans Frontiers or MSF said they treat one thousand children suffering from malnutrition per month compared to 40 malnutrition cases each month before the conflict in Leer of Unity State.
In a statement on Tuesday MSF head of Mission in South Sudan Raphael Gorgeu said in Unity State that the scale of malnutrition became clear when displaced people returned to their towns in May after living for months in bush.
He lamented that children in the country were suffering from shocking rates of malnutrition.
The head of mission reported that more than 13,270 children, most under the age of five were admitted to MSF feeding programmes this year, amounting to 73 percent of the 18,125 admissions in 2013 when the violence started.
He disclosed that displacement, and food shortages were the leading causes of the spike in malnutrition rates and the increasing numbers of children requiring urgent medical care.