Lives at risk due to massive drug shortages in South Sudan
By Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Thousands of lives are at risk across South Sudan as massive drug shortages have forced many medical centres to close, a charity said, calling on donors to restore supplies before the deadly malaria season resumes. A quarter of 42 clinics visited by teams from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Aweil, in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, had closed because they did not have essential medicines. “(A) preventable medical emergency is unfolding,” MSF's international president Joanne Liu said in an open letter on Thursday.