Fifteen months of conflict in Sudan has claimed 19,000 lives and left 33,000 injured, severely constraining health access, but the Democratic Republic of Congo has the most people needing humanitarian aid globally, the World Health Organization said Friday.
Fleeing an attack by armed men in El Geneina, capital of Sudan 's West Darfur State, that killed her husband, 22-year-old Zeinab and her two children found refuge in a displaced persons camp in neighboring Chad Geneva —
In Sudan this year so far, over 20,000 cases of cholera and close to 60,000 cases of measles have been reported, with numbers likely to be higher due to limited disease surveillance and data reporting.The day before, WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists this was due to insecurity and shortages of medicines, medical supplies, and health workers.
"We call on both sides to the conflict to facilitate assistance for those in need. Opening the Adré crossing from Chad into western Darfur is absolutely vital for scaling up assistance," said the WHO chief.=In the past three months, the number of displaced people in Sudan has leaped by more than 45 percent to 12.7 million, including 10.5 million displaced internally and 2.2 million who have sought refuge in neighboring countries.
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