The Central Sudan Doctors Syndicate has warned of the danger of the continued assassination of medical personnel and the targeting of hospitals due to the current fighting between the army and the Rapid Support Forces in the capital, Khartoum, and a number of other cities in the country, which has entered its third month amid fears of a complete collapse of the health system in the country.
On Friday, an armed force assassinated a laboratory specialist in a hospital in the “Dorshab” area, north of Khartoum, bringing the number of medical casualties since the outbreak of fighting in mid-April to about 23 doctors and health workers.
This comes as hospitals in the capital and Darfur states continue to be out of service due to the deteriorating security situation. The health sector in less dangerous cities and regions also suffers from an acute shortage of medical staff and medical and medical supplies, in addition to power outages for hours and days.
According to Dr. Muhammad Abbas, who works in Darfur state hospitals, a number of medical personnel were threatened in various ways even in the operating rooms, indicating that a large number of them were killed.
Abbas told Sky News Arabia that drug stores in the city of El Geneina and a number of other cities in the region are being constantly looted.
He added that many hospitals were completely or partially destroyed, especially the El Geneina hospital, which was completely out of service.
Abbas warned of a major health catastrophe in a number of cities in the Darfur region due to the accumulation of the bodies of victims of the ongoing clashes there.
The war had catastrophic consequences for the health sector. Where about 70 percent of Khartoum hospitals were out of service due to the continuous shelling or as a result of the inability of medical personnel to reach hospitals or the lack of medical aids.
Doctors and medical personnel are working in all parts of Sudan, amid extremely complex and disastrous conditions, to save the sick and injured, amid an almost complete collapse of the health sector, which has become the scene of battlefields and fighting.
“The tragedies will not stop as long as the war continues with all its gravity,” the Sudan Doctors Syndicate said in a statement.
She stressed that she will seek to work with allies of voluntary work to provide assistance as much as possible to save critical cases, despite the difficulty of communication.
2023-07-01 02:25:29
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