South Sudan has been hit with devastating flooding, bringing increased risks of malaria and fatal food shortages. 9News
WHO have sent a rapid response team to Jonglei State to collect samples for testing fromJonglei State has been hit with devastating flooding, which is complicating access to the region and bringing increased risks of malaria and fatal food shortages.Children wash themselves in muddy floodwaters in the village of Wang Chot, in South Sudan."We decided to send a rapid response team to go and do risk assessment and investigation," WHO's Sheila Baya told the BBC.
"That is when they will be able to collect samples from the sick people – but provisionally the figure that we got was that there were 89 deaths," she said.Some 835,000 people have been impacted by floods with 35,000 people displaced according to the UN.and severe malnutrition of South Sudanese. The number of children admitted to its hospital with severe malnutrition had doubled since the start of the floods, Médecins Sans Frontières, an international charity, said.
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