Humanitarian workers have succeeded in carrying out nutrition screening for hundreds of young children in Fangak County of northern Jonglei. They have also recently reached communities elsewhere in several other remote parts of the Upper Nile region.
During the week of 2 November, the aid organization Action Against Hunger (ACF) screened 736 children under five years for malnutrition in five centres across Fangak County, Jonglei.
According to the International Organization for Migration, which manages funding for the ACF program under which this assistance was carried out, the aid group admitted 43 children for treatment of moderate acute malnutrition and 13 for severe acute malnutrition.
IOM is managing a ‘rapid relief’ funding mechanism to support relief agencies across the country to swiftly implement specific emergency interventions.
In a bulletin today, IOM also reported that they have deployed “mobile response teams” in neighboring Canal/Pigi County of Jonglei to provide water, sanitation and hygiene services. They noted that they reached families of displaced people in Kurwai and Kolapach. The IOM teams are also distributing relief items, including soap, water carrying containers and water filters and purification tablets.
Meanwhile in Upper Nile State, IMA World Health is supporting five emergency mobile clinics for displaced people in Kodok, Fashoda County, and one mobile clinic in Delel Ajak, Manyo County.