Over 33,000 displaced people in Twic County need aid: MSF

April 25, 2022 (JUBA) – More than 33,000 people who fled their homes in Twic County of South Sudan’s Warrap State over two months ago lack the much needed basic necessities, a medical charity said Monday.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, in a statement, said the humanitarian community in South Sudan has failed to scale up assistance to people living without food, shelter and sanitation, despite their repeated calls.

“The situation in the displacement camps is terrible. People are living in makeshift shelters made of sticks and cloth. Parents are literally pulling leaves from trees and cooking them to feed their children because of lack of food,” said Susana Borges, MSF Head of Mission for South Sudan.

She added, “We are doing our best to respond but more assistance is needed from other organisations to meet the scale of this crisis.”

The displaced people, MSF said, live in “dire” humanitarian conditions.

For the past two months, MSF has reportedly provided a total of 374.2 metric tons of food, and an average of 14.5 litres of clean water per person per day in the different locations. The medical charity said it has also constructed 135 latrines and distributed relief items such as blankets, mosquito nets, jerry cans and soap to some ten thousand families.

MSF said its teams have been running mobile clinics in three of different sites where displaced people are sheltering. The health conditions of patients presenting at the MSF clinics are closely related the poor living conditions and limited access to food.

The medical charity has been working in Agok since 2006 and established in 2008 a hospital providing a wide range of health services for the population in the area.

(ST)