Renewed fighting in the southern Sudanese region of Eastern Equatoria has resulted in a sharp increase in the number of patients being admitted to ICRC-supported medical facilities in the area. On 2 October, the ICRC flew 33 wound victims to its surgical hospital in Lokichokio, in northern Kenya, and is now organizing a further evacuation.

The past six weeks have seen a 40% rise in admissions to the Lokichokio hospital as compared with July and August. In the first two weeks of October alone, 100 new patients were treated there, most arriving from Equatoria. More than half were suffering from gunshot wounds.

The ICRC surgical team at the Juba teaching hospital has recently treated 20 war victims. Under a cooperation agreement between the hospital's ICRC-supported surgical facility and the local military hospital, the civilian unit will in future care for wounded soldiers in the event of an influx exceeding the military hospital's capacity.