A student died of malaria in Pariang County in Unity State, highlighting the poor health conditions in the area and lack of treatment options. The student Mujahid Tijani of Pariang Secondary School died on Tuesday.

The supervisor of the students’ hostel Ms. Mimi Marcus told radio Tamazuj that the student was one of the sons of refugees from South Kordofan residing at Pariang Camp in Unity State in South. She added that he was infected with malaria which led to his transfer from the hostel to the camp where he died. The supervisor said that due to the absence of transport in the region, the student was carried on their shoulders in sad procession amid screaming students to Pariang hospital which lies at about 1.6 miles from the camp for post-mortem. She revealed that the post-mortem stated that the death was caused by malaria.

Refugees and citizens of Pariang have been complaining from lack of medicine and screening at the hospital and that medicines and testing were only available in commercial clinics and were expensive where the treatment of malaria costs three hundred pounds and the cheapest tests reach up to forty pounds.