Last year witnessed three round vaccinations of hepatitis E, where MSF teams in collaboration with the health authorities in South Sudan had carried out a mass campaign in response to an outbreak, with a main objective in the fight against a disease that is especially fatal for pregnant women...
In Jonglei state, northeastern South Sudan, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are rushing four critically ill patients by ambulance boat to the MSF hospital in Old Fangak. Among the people on the boat, Nya Sibet Mar is holding her two-year-old daughter, Nya Thor, who is suffering from severe...
Humanitarian organisations must urgently scale up their response to ease the difficulties faced by people fleeing the conflict from Sudan to Upper Nile state in South Sudan, says Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (MSF). Thousands of returnees have been arriving sick and exhausted at...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are recording a concerning rise in measles and malnutrition cases in the organization’s facilities in South Sudan, particularly amongst returnees fleeing conflict from Sudan and host communities. MSF medical facilities in Upper Nile, Unity, Northern Bahr El...
Another bustling day in the operating theatre concluded with a bone fracture fixation surgery for an eight-year-old girl. Upon her admission to the emergency room, we performed an initial consultation and physical examination.
In a parched landscape, an MSF tractor roars as it approaches a small village in Dentiuk, in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state. It is towing a trailer to which a creaking wooden canoe is strapped. “Are you sure we are in the right place?” asks the driver. “It might not look like it, but when the rains...
