Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
South Sudan: Unity State - Acute Diarrhea Kills Two Daily, Agency Says
BY JULIUS N. UMA, 28 JULY 2012
Juba ? At least two, out of every 10,000 children die daily as a result of the recent outbreak of acute diarrhea disease, in South Sudan's Unity State, where some 57,000 refugees are currently settled, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said.
These Sudanese refugees are part of those who fled fighting in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states in to Upper Nile and neighboring Ethiopia. An estimated more than 200,000, UNHCR says, have been force to abandon the two troubled Sudanese states.
"During the third week of July alone, 23 deaths from acute diarrhea were recorded," says the weekly bulletin from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), while overall crude mortality rate is reportedly 0.92.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/201207290147.html
BY JULIUS N. UMA, 28 JULY 2012
Juba ? At least two, out of every 10,000 children die daily as a result of the recent outbreak of acute diarrhea disease, in South Sudan's Unity State, where some 57,000 refugees are currently settled, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said.
These Sudanese refugees are part of those who fled fighting in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states in to Upper Nile and neighboring Ethiopia. An estimated more than 200,000, UNHCR says, have been force to abandon the two troubled Sudanese states.
"During the third week of July alone, 23 deaths from acute diarrhea were recorded," says the weekly bulletin from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), while overall crude mortality rate is reportedly 0.92.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/201207290147.html