HIGHLIGHTS
Over 4.6 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. The humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate as fighting escalates in southern Unity and Upper Nile states, leading to a number of causalities and a new wave of displacements.
Humanitarian access continues to shrink as more places continue to be cut off and huge populations continue not to be accessed with medical and humanitarian assistance. Over 100 humanitarian workers have been evacuated from the conflict affected states in the past one week and this has greatly affected the delivery of the much needed emergency health services.
Health partners, led by WHO, have updated mass casualty plans for Bentiu, Malakal and Melut to ensure an effective response to the wounded. Additional supplies have been provided to support the surgical management capacity at Malakal level 11 facility.
A total of 4,998 children among new arrivals in the PoCs and IDP camps in Upper Nile State were vaccinated against measles to prevent a potential outbreak among communities in the camps.