"Because of the lack of appropriate, urgently needed aid, the health of displaced people in Sudan's Darfur region, particularly children, is radically worsening," MSF (Doctors Without Borders) said in a statement.
"Despite announcements of forthcoming aid, assistance is utterly inadequate. Mobilization of aid efforts is slow and the few organizations operating in Darfur can not meet the full range of needs," it added.
MSF said that most children in Darfur were suffering from measles because of poor nutrition.
An MSF team has vaccinated some 15 000 children in the Mornay area of Darfur, but the inoculation exercise was delayed in Nyertiti and Zalinge, where MSF doctors have treated hundreds of children suffering from measles.
The medical aid group also reported a decline in people's nutritional status.
The US on Wednesday denounced as "unacceptable" Sudan's refusal to grant visas to a US disaster response team to visit Darfur, accusing Khartoum of ignoring the urgent needs of the Sudanese people.
But Sudan's acting foreign minister Najeib al-Khair Abdel Wahab told AFP in Khartoum Thursday that entry visas would be granted to USAID officials as soon as a visiting high-level United Nations team completed its current mission of assessing humanitarian needs in Darfur.
The UN mission, led by World Food Programme Executive Director James Morris, left Khartoum on Wednesday to tour Darfur.
Darfur in western Sudan has been ravaged by fighting pitting government-backed militias against two rebel movements, the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and Justice and Equity Movement (JEM).
About 10 000 people have died and up to a million others displaced during 14 months of violence. - Sapa-AFP
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