Infections resulting in sight problems have been recorded at Yusuf Batil refugee camp in Maban County, Upper Nile State, according to South Sudanese health authorities.
The camp accommodates a large number of people mostly from Sudan’s Blue Nile State who fled the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces with allied militias and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North.
Speaking to Radio Tamazuj on Sunday, the camp’s Public Health Officer Batista Pascal said the refugees complained of the spread of eye infections, diarrhoea, and other inflammatory diseases.
“Eye diseases were caused by dust and flies in the area,” Pascal explained.
Pascal said they have two health facilities that receive about 120 -150 patients a day.
The health officer attributed the deteriorating health situation in the camp to shortage of food and basic services following the outbreak of conflict in South Sudan.
File photo: A refugee from Blue Nile building his house in Maban County, 2012 (Radio Tamazuj)