00:01South Sudan's worsening conflict is pushing its health care system to the brink.
00:06The Red Cross says medical evacuations have surged by 50% this year,
00:10as fighting between forces loyal to President Salva Kiya
00:14and opposition groups continues to leave civilians trapped without access to vital care.
00:25By June of this year, we've seen almost double of what we saw by June last year.
00:29So the conflict is not getting any better and the situation the humanitarian needs are also on the rise.
00:35This is further complicated with the fact that the funding also with other NGOs also has gone down.
00:42So service provision at all levels of health care is reduced
00:46and this also causes a lot of strain in the hospital levels because the referral system,
00:52the functional facility at the state level is decreased.
00:57So there's also a lot of pressure on the referral hospital at the highest level.
01:04Many patients are airlifted to Juba Military Hospital, where surgeries have ramped up.
01:10With aid one hospitals forced to close after attacks,
01:13hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians are losing access to life-saving care.
01:19This is Ganyel airstrip and we came here to do medical evacuation for war wounded patients.
01:31Actually, it's a mass casualty because we have more than 10 patients in a row.
01:35And we came to do the triage so that those ones who are critically ill will be evacuated to Juba.
01:42And in the coming days, the remaining ones will also be taken to Juba.
01:46South Sudan won independence in 2011.
01:50But years of conflict have shattered hopes for lasting peace,
01:54with the nude violence threatening to undo a fragile power-sharing deal.
01:58The appliance to close to the irritability of PIC,
01:58The PIC was kurz to take a look.
01:59The central layer of PIC to reduce the issue of the year in Europe.
02:00The pressure is with the pressure of PIC.
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