Sick patients in South Sudan have been killed in their beds and medical facilities have been looted and burned to the ground, aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned yesterday.

MSF said that the extreme violence and lack of respect for health workers shown in the country’s civil war has made the group’s work almost impossible.

Warning of an “alarming pattern of lootings and attacks on patients” and health facilities, MSF said its work was being strangled by a “climate of utter disrespect and fear.”