Doctors Without Borders opens cholera therapy heart in Renk amid outbreak – Sudans Post
JUBA – Medical charity Doctors Without Borders, often known as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has established a Cholera Treatment Unit (CTU) at Renk Civil Hospital in Upper Nile State following a cholera outbreak that started on October 28.
The 20-bed facility has up to now handled 45 cholera sufferers and recorded two deaths, based on Emanuele Montobbio, MSF’s subject coordinator for the Renk emergency program.
“Given the inadequate, overcrowded living conditions and continued influx of refugees and returnees from Sudan into Renk and Malakal, there is an imminent urgent need for a response to improve the water, sanitation, and hygiene situation to prevent further spread of the disease,” MSF stated in a press release on Thursday.
Montobbio known as on organizations in Upper Nile State to collaborate in efforts to include the unfold of cholera.
He highlighted that the majority cholera instances stem from arrivals from Sudan, the place a cholera outbreak was declared in August 2024.
Local residents of Renk have additionally been affected, he stated, because of water contamination, open defecation, and overcrowding as new arrivals proceed to flood in from Sudan.
“In the past weeks, an average of up to 800 people are entering Renk daily from Sudan, fleeing from the war in the country,” Montobbio stated.
The outbreak was formally declared on October 27 by South Sudan’s Ministry of Health in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), after six cholera instances had been confirmed on October 8 at Wunthou Primary Care Center.
Renk serves as a key transit hub for refugees and returnees escaping the battle between Sudan’s Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
According to the UN refugee company (UNHCR), South Sudan is at present internet hosting over 810,000 individuals, together with refugees and returnees who’ve fled violence in Sudan since mid-April 2023.
