Cairo, 1 September (EFE). – The organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today warned of the lack of adequate health care, shelter and food supplies for the thousands of people who fled the conflict in Sudan and relocated to neighboring countries such as southern Sudan and Chad.
“Chad and South Sudan host more than 60% of the people who have been forced to leave the country since April last year,” the NGO stressed in a statement, noting that “many arrive exhausted and seriously ill.” and (.. .) suffer from a lack of shelter and medical care.”
In this sense, the organization emphasized that the difficulties faced by these countries are reflected in the care they provide to refugees and returnees who “lack food and water in sufficient quantities and are subject to outbreaks of diseases such as cholera or measles are exposed”. .
In South Sudan, South Sudanese refugees now returning to their country from its northern neighbor find themselves in a “delicate” situation, with “overcrowded transit centers, lack of adequate accommodation and medical care, and food shortages.”
According to the United Nations, almost 350,000 civilians have returned to South Sudan, including refugees and economic migrants who had already been in the north before independence, and 80% of them did so through Renk in the north of Alto Nile province, greatly affected by the internal conflict itself.
Meanwhile, most of the 380,000 people who arrived in Chad sought refuge in camps and settlements in and around the border town of Adré, where “Doctors Without Borders teams witnessed the terrible living conditions (…) with severe shortages of food, water, sanitation and shelter.” and medical care.
“People are desperately waiting for food rations. Some have been without food for five weeks. They feed their children insects, grass and leaves. They have far less water than they need and many have no shelter,” warned Doctors Without Borders emergency coordinator in Adré, Susana Borges.
Given this scenario, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) called on UN agencies, international donors and humanitarian organizations to scale up the response to try to urgently meet the humanitarian needs of Sudanese refugees in Chad and South Sudan. South. EFE
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