Too late to save him: The deadly mix of conflict and hunger in South Sudan
The wails outside the camp clinic were indistinguishable. They sounded of sudden agony and loss. Of the outrage of ‘why my little son, not me?’ Of the tune that might match the feeling that there can be no greater pain than this.
“You must not enter,” our colleague whispered to the visiting chiefs of UNHCR, António Guteress and the World Food Programme, Ertharin Cousin.
“There has been a death.” The parents, refugees just having made their escape trek from South Sudan, had just minutes before rushed their four-year-old boy here for treatment. He was acutely malnourished, and suffering from from malaria and pneumonia. There was nothing the MSF doctors could do to keep him alive.
