A video clip documented the effects of the great destruction that afflicted a hospital in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, as a result of the violent clashes between the army and the rebel Rapid Support Forces.
The clip showed that the pediatric surgery ward on the upper floor of Ibrahim Malik Hospital in Al-Sahafa neighborhood in the capital was severely damaged.
This comes at a time when the Preliminary Committee of the Sudan Doctors Syndicate said that 60 out of 86 hospitals in the fighting areas have stopped working.
The Sudanese Medical Syndicate stated on its Facebook page that Khartoum alone witnessed eight of these deaths on Wednesday.
It also confirmed that 14 hospitals were bombed and 19 medical facilities stopped working due to the clashes.
Many hospitals have stopped
In turn, the World Health Organization warned that “violence, the stoppage of work of many hospitals, the limited ability to supply water, food shortages, and the forced displacement of the population,” are all factors that pose “great health risks in Sudan.”
The UN organization added that “50,000 children in Darfur suffer from acute malnutrition” and are deprived of any food assistance as a result of the suspension of the activities of the United Nations organizations after the killing of five of their employees.
A hospital in Khartoum (Reuters)
In parallel, and amid mutual accusations between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs handed on Thursday an official memorandum to the World Health Organization about what it described as the Rapid Support Forces’ encroachment on 12 hospitals and health facilities in Khartoum.
The army accuses rapid support
In the statement carried by the Sudan News Agency, the foreign ministry said that it had handed the organization a memorandum through the permanent mission of Sudan to the United Nations in Geneva, “concerning the flagrant encroachment by the rebel Rapid Support Forces on 12 hospitals and health facilities in the national capital, Khartoum.”
The statement indicated that the concerned hospitals and facilities that the support forces “occupied” are Khartoum Hospital, Al-Shaab Hospital, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, Dental Hospital, Al-Razi Hospital, Al-Saha Hospital, Private Hospitals Group, Kuwaiti Hospital, East Nile Hospital, and the National Health Laboratory. And the central blood bank, and the parents’ hospital.
A hospital in Khartoum (Reuters)
It is noteworthy that the clashes, air strikes and artillery, since the outbreak of the battles, have killed more than 500 people, injured nearly 4,200, destroyed hospitals and limited food distribution.
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2023-04-28 05:48:00
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