Medical charity organization M-S-F says three children under five years of age are dying each day of acute malnutrition within the Bentiu Protection of Civilians sites.

The agency says the children are dying of ‘preventable diseases’.

M-S-F’s head of Mission in South Sudan, Raphael Gorgue, says heavy rains have worsened the situation in the camps.

He said floods have also destroyed latrines and making it impossible for water trucks to use the roads for deliveries.

Raphael Gorgue told Eye Radio that the number of people seeking protection at the UNMISS base in Bentiu has increased nearly ten times in the last two months.

“Basically in six months, we passed from 6,000 to 45,000 people and today as we see here, lack of latrines, lack of hygiene promotion and as well as lack of water which has really put the population at a very high in this camp,” said Mr Gorgue.

He said the situation puts the IDPs at risk of contracting communicable diseases.

According to the humanitarian agency, displaced people continue to arrive every day from the surrounding region in very bad condition.

The report also says there might be further outbreak of diseases such as cholera, hepatitis, malaria and other diseases.