{"id":187070,"date":"2013-08-23T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/at-least-2-children-die-per-day-in-south-darfur-camp\/"},"modified":"2013-08-23T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T23:07:00","slug":"at-least-2-children-die-per-day-in-south-darfur-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/at-least-2-children-die-per-day-in-south-darfur-camp","title":{"rendered":"\u2018At least 2 children die per day\u2019 in South Darfur camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

The spread of diseases in South Darfur\u2019s Attash camp, along with shortage of health care facilities and medicines, is \u201ckilling between two and four children every day\u201d at the site, a sheikh says.<\/p>\n

Mainly the newly displaced are affected, the sheikh added, stressing that many children are suffering of malnutrition at the camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe high incidence of deaths among children is scary,\u201d Attash\u2019s sheikh told Radio Dabanga.<\/p>\n

Last week, the head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Sudan, Mark Cutts, stated that the overall level of malnutrition throughout Sudan is higher than the emergency threshold considered by the World Health Organisation.<\/p>\n

In Marshang camp, South Darfur, displaced are also worried about the high mortality rates and the spread of illnesses such as malaria, conjunctivitis, and skin diseases, which they described as \u201cserious\u201d.<\/p>\n

“Diseases began to appear in July and most deaths occurred in August. Conjunctivitis is especially affecting children and skin diseases are prominent among adults too,\u201d the sheikh told Radio Dabanga.<\/p>\n

He disclosed that the area has only two health centres \u201cfor more than 70,000 people living in camps and nearby villages.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sheikh is asking health authorities and humanitarian organisations to provide medicine, build new health centres, and cover pools of stagnant water.<\/p>\n

File photo by Albert Gonz\u00e1lez Farran\/UNAMID<\/em><\/p>\n

Related: <\/em>OCHA boss: Sudan malnutrition rate above emergency threshold<\/a> (16 August 2013)<\/p>\n

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