The International Committee of the Red Cross says it has conducted more than 2,000 surgical operations for the wounded persons since the conflict started in December 2013.

These surgeries were conducted in areas under the government control and in those controlled by the SPLM in opposition.

“Since the very beginning of the conflict our mobile surgical teams performed more than two thousands and two hundred surgeries on the wounded persons,” Pawel Krzysiek, ICRC spokesperson, told the Dawn show.

“We assist hundred people with disabilities providing them with physical rehabilitations services – wheelchairs and physical therapies.”

Besides, the ICRC has launched a new initiative to help thousands of people fleeing the violence in South Sudan.

A new web page (www.http://familylinks.icrc.org/south-sudan) has been set up which enables people to trace family members with whom they have lost contact.

“The web page will allow South Sudanese people living abroad in places like the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and France, look for relatives displaced by the violence,” said the ICRC’s Marc Studer, who is heading the project.

Today is the Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, focusing on the fundamental principle of humanitarian work.