Arjan Hehenkamp, MSF General Director, addresses a press conference - Jan 29, 2014

The international medical humanitarian organization, Medecins Sans Frontieres,

has condemned the attack on its facilities in South Sudan.

The MSF Head of Mission in the country, Raphael Gorgeu, was addressing journalists in

Juba this morning.

“What we have seen the last weeks was that MSF facilities, MSF staff and patients have experienced unacceptable attacks, looting and intimidation and we consider that medical care is under fire in South Sudan. The first example I would like to give is is the situation of Malakal Teaching Hospital. Several of its patients were shot dead while lying in their beds. Many of the hospital wards, including the therapeutic feeding center for malnourished children, have been burned and general looting has been clearly taking place throughout the hospital in Malakal,” he said.

Meanwhile the Field Coordinator for Leer Hospital in Unity State, Sarah Maynard, said Leer Hospital is totally destroyed.

“I have visited Leer and that hospital no longer exists. The operating theaters are destroyed. One of them is completely burned, the emergency room is gutted by fire. The tent where we stored therapeutic food for malnourished children is also destroyed, drugs have been completely looted, all of the medical supplies are gone, surgical instruments are destroyed, scattered throughout the ground of the hospital, not a single bed remains in the hospital and the entire compound has been ransacked,” Ms Maynard said.