At least 13 children have died in recent weeks during a suspected measles outbreak at internal displacement camps in Sudan’s White Nile state, amid conflict between the country’s two warring factions, according to an international medical nongovernmental organization (NGO) Sunday.
“The situation is critical. Suspected measles and malnutrition in children are the most urgent health problems,” the Sudanese branch of Médecins Sans Frontière, or Doctors Without Borders, said.
From June 6 to 27, the NGO treated 223 children with suspected measles in White Nile camps, it said, with 72–including the 13 who died– admitted to two clinics it supports.
The NGO said it had received a total of 3,145 patients to the two clinics in the month of June, adding, “as more people arrive, there’s an urgent need to increase assistance, scale up services like vaccinations, nutritional support, shelter, water, and sanitation.”
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