Dr Inka Weissbecker, International Medical Corps’ mental health and psychosocial adviser, recently received an email from a colleague working in South Sudan.
In it, the Ethiopian psychiatrist gave her an account of the violence that tore through the huge UN camp close to the northern town of Malakal in mid-February, leaving 18 people dead and thousands without shelter.
“He was talking about how some of our health facilities were attacked and one of our patients with a psychotic disorder died – I think he was shot – because he probably couldn’t flee like other patients,” says Weissbecker.
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