South Sudan refugees in Ethiopia face adjacent ‘health devastation’: MSF
In Ethiopia, South Sudani refugees face a adjacent “health devastation”, the doctors without borders (MSF) said on Friday citing cases of a cholera epidemic and severe rapid malnutrition. After achieving independence from Sudan in South Sudan, 2011, the world’s youngest country was immersed in a violent civil war between 2013 and 2018, which killed about 400,000 people.A power-sharing agreement between the warning parties provided a delicate calm, but it all collapsed, but the violent clashes have collapsed, the President Salwa Kir and his long-term rival, the first vice-president, the first vice-president, broke between the forces affiliated to the first vice-president Rek Machchar, which was placed under the arrest of the house in March. According to MSF, 35,000 to 85,000 South Sudani refugees have fled to an Ethiopian city of Matar near the border with South Sudan. The NGO said in a statement, “The local infrastructure is spread beyond the capacity,” saying that “with the revival of waterborne diseases such as cholera and acute water diarrhea, the risk of health disaster is adjacent.” MSF stated that it had treated about 1,200 patients with cholera, a disease that could be fatal in 10–20 percent of cases. The MSF said, “More than 40 percent of the rapid diagnostic test of malaria has made a positive return, and about 7 percent of children indicate severe acute malnutrition under five,” MSF said. The NGO also announced that it had shifted its medical services to a longer flesh with the border between the Ethiopian border city of Burbaye from the Ethiopian border city of Burbay. More than 200 people have been received at Burbai with “war injuries” since the fight began in February. The MSF urged various parties to struggle in South Sudan to “ensure a safe human location and save citizens and help employees equally,” and called international donors to extend aid in especially the beats “where shelters, water and medical care are in very little supply for those who have fled from horrific violence”.
