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Deng and Cham are born on the 27th of September in Aweil hospital, in northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan. Their mother started to deliver while she went to the market which is 3 hours from her home. Currently, there is only one qualified midwife per 30,000 people and in case of problems the closest health facility is often accessible after many hours on the roads.
Deng and Cham are born on the 27th of September in Aweil hospital, in northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan. Their mother started to deliver while she went to the market which is 3 hours from her home. Currently, there is only one qualified midwife per 30,000 people and in case of problems the closest health facility is often accessible after many hours on the roads.
© Mathieu Fortoul/MSF

Faces of the Crisis

Deng and Cham are born on the 27th of September in Aweil hospital, in northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan. Their mother started to deliver while she went to the market which is 3 hours from her home. Currently, there is only one qualified midwife per 30,000 people and in case of problems the closest health facility is often accessible after many hours on the roads.
© Mathieu Fortoul/MSF
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The ongoing conflict in the North and East of South Sudan are distracting attention from regular healthcare concerns like the malaria epidemic that is affecting the West of the country. Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) teams are running 25 programmes, as well as outreach activities, in nine of South Sudan’s ten states, providing healthcare to people facing crisis, and runs programmes in neighbouring countries like Ethiopia to offer assistance to the South Sudanese refugees.