Aid agencies fear the humanitarian crisis is deepening in South Sudan. <br /><br />Over 12,000 people live in one camp in Juba and the numbers are growing rapidly as people flee the fighting.<br /><br />Malaria, measles and diarrhoea are on the rise due to a lack of clean water and sanitation. The young are vulnerable and aid agencies fear there is not enough medicine to treat the ill.<br /><br />There is just one makeshift clinic in the camp with around 400 patients a day waiting for treatment.<br /><br />Dr. Alain Philip is a vaccination specialist who admits the outbreak of measles is too high and is spreading with people living in such cramped conditions. He reckons over sixty children are being given a jab each day. Complications can set in adding to the huge task he and the medical staff face.<br /><br />Beating the measles is just one problem faced by thousands of children in Africa’s youngest nation. Many have been separated from their families while some – it’s been reported – are being recruited by the warring factions.<br /><br />It’s estimated up to 10,000 have been killed in the fighting which broke out in mid-December.
