"Patients in South Sudan have been shot to death in their hospital beds, and medical facilities have been looted and burned to the ground, forcing the aid group Doctors Without Borders to reexamine its operations here.
The extreme violence and lack of respect for health care workers shown by South Sudan's warring sides have made Doctors Without Borders' work almost impossible, the international group said Wednesday.
Members of the aid group discovered at least 14 patients killed in a hospital in the contested city of Malakal over the weekend, the group said, adding that several of the patients had been shot in their beds. Rebels have been fighting government forces for control of the city, the capital of an oil-producing state.
In addition, Doctors Without Borders' facilities in the towns of Leer and Bentiu have been looted and destroyed..."