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International medical organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has reported a high rise of malaria and malnutrition among returnees and refugees from Sudan in Renk, a town located in the northernmost state of Upper Nile.
MSF head of mission in South Sudan, Jocelyn Yapi said, many people, especially children, are arriving to the border in alarming health conditions suffering from deadly diseases like measles, Malaria and malnutrition, requiring immediate medical care.
According to the MSF head of mission, MSF medical facilities in the area are recording a 70 per cent positivity rate of malaria, a disease that has already killed more people than any other in South Sudan.
The International medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls for an urgent improved medical and humanitarian response for people fleeing conflict in Sudan entering South Sudan through Renk in Upper Nile state.
“We are calling on the humanitarian and medical groups to do more by strengthening medical and humanitarian activities at the entry point and at transit centres.”
A systematic vaccination catch-up should be also available 24/7 on the border given the current low vaccination coverage in Sudan and ongoing outbreak of measles in both countries,” MSF head of mission in South Sudan, Jocelyn Yapi added.
“As we treat malnourished children in the hospital, we see that many mothers are also malnourished,” says Abraham Anhieny, MSF Medical Doctor in Renk.”
The MSF reported that, the community of returnees in Renk is too vulnerable not only insufficient food and drinking water, but they also do not have shelters as they use pieces of cloth to protect themselves from the sun and rain.
According to an MSF report, since the fighting erupted in Sudan, around 290,000 individuals have entered South Sudan, 80 percent of them through Joda border in Upper Nile state. This stay is often exhausting and painful, as they have limited access to food, shelter, water, sanitation and healthcare.