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Widespread malaria outbreak grips Unity State

Bonifacio Taban
Health workers are struggling to cope with an unusually high number of malaria cases in Unity State, near the border with Sudan.
25.04.2024  |  Bentiu
Eighty percent of the patients at hospitals and health clinics in the Unity State capital are infected with malaria.
Eighty percent of the patients at hospitals and health clinics in the Unity State capital are infected with malaria.


Dr. Wang Gang, an internist at Bentiu China Hospital
Many people in the area are vulnerable to the disease because they do not know how to protect themselves from mosquitoes that transmit it.

But as Bonifacio Taban reports, some residents blame state health officials for inadequate public resources to inform the population about malaria prevention: