Refugee influx and foreign aid cuts strain South Sudan's health care system

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[0:03] cuts to global aid programs are more apparent than South Sudan, with

[0:08] raging civil war in Sudan to its north, South Sudan, also still wracked

[0:12] by conflict, is contending with its own underserved population and

[0:16] more than a million Sudanese refugees, special correspondent Anna

[0:20] Conkling of Newsphere, a new journalism app, reports from rank in

[0:24] South Sudan.

[0:26] Who.

[0:27] What.

[0:29] Yeah.

[0:30] Those raspy, labored breaths are khlia's.

[0:34] She spent 15 days in the pediatric ward of this hospital in Rink

[0:39] just south of the Sudan border.

[0:42] She is just 11 months old and like so many of the babies here,

[0:48] she is starving.

[0:50] So we are giving forbid 2, which is 90. Nur Shadia is preparing formula

[0:54] for them all. In addition to the breathing trouble, Kalia has severe

[0:59] fever and she's lost too mu

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