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IRC Clinics Treat War-weary South Sudanese

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October 31st, 2005 - 09:08AM

South Sudan
Photo: Peter Biro/International Rescue Committee

Large numbers of people returning home to south Sudan after years of civil war line up outside the IRC’s clinic in Marial Bai every morning. “Most of them suffer from malaria,” says nurse Peter Ker Ker, here treating a woman who returned from a camp in the north a few weeks earlier.

Journalist Kevin Sites is covering IRC health programs in South Sudan in Yahoo! News this week.


Posted By: Peter Biro | Africa, Health, Sudan & the Darfur Crisis
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