A father sits next to his malaria-positive child.

South Sudan is in the middle of malaria season. The majority of patients at Mayen Abun hospital are positive for malaria, some of them suffering from severe cases.


Pakot Muon brought his son, Muon Pakot, to the MSF hospital after two days of high fever and convulsions. They come from Agok. He had to walk for four hours with his feverish child because the health facilities near their home had run out of medication.

"They used to have drugs for us, we used to go there. But lately they have no drugs to help us and we have to come all the way here. “

It was the first time Pakot had come to MSF in Mayen Abun, although his wife and some of his family had been there before.

Muon (3) had been treated for malaria when he arrived two days before we met, and although he still had a fever, his father was happy to see an improvement in his health.