South Sudan: Urgent Action Needed to Address Growing Cholera Outbreak

[MSF] Juba — Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has set up a 20-bed cholera treatment unit (CTU) at the Renk Civil Hospital in South Sudan, in response to a cholera outbreak declared by the Ministry of Health (MoH) on 28 October. We call on all organisations in Upper Nile state to help prevent the spread of the disease within Upper Nile State and beyond.The MSF-supported CTU has so far received and treated 45 cholera cases, and recorded among them two deaths. Most of the patients are people arriving from the



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