MSF teams in South Sudan are battling a growing cholera outbreak, with patients arriving from neighboring Sudan and the local population. The aid group has called for international support to address the escalating humanitarian crisis.
Medecins Sans Frontières ( MSF ) has called on aid organizations to help curb the growing cholera outbreak declared in October. The group said an MSF -supported treatment center in the Upper Nile State has received dozens of cholera cases, with most patients arriving from the war in neighboring Sudan, where a similar outbreak was in August 2024.
'However, the MSF teams have also received patients from the local population of Renk,' the aid group said in a statement that the country was facing a spiralling humanitarian crisis with hunger and cholera cases escalating in several parts of the country'. It called for more international support to help ease the widespread suffering. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has set up a 20-bed cholera treatment unit (CTU) at the Renk Civil Hospital in South Sudan, in response to a cholera outbreak declared... South Sudan is facing a spiralling humanitarian crisis with hunger and cholera cases escalating in several parts of the country. UN agencies on Friday called for more international... The International Organization for Migration has called for rapid action to prevent a cholera epidemic from spiraling out of control as the rainy season in the country progresses. Women from South Sudan sanitise hands at the Ugandan border point of Elegu in Amuru District before entering the country as one of the measures to control the spread of cholera
CHOLERA SOUTH SUDAN HUMANITARIAN CRISIS MSF AID
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