At least eight people have died in attacks on health facilities, according to the WHO. Read more at straitstimes.com.
KHARTOUM - Mr Ibrahim Mohamed turned in his hospital bed to find the patient next to him had died, but fighting that had erupted in Sudan’s capital hours earlier meant the body could not be moved.have turned Khartoum into a war zone, shuttering hospitals and preventing health professionals from providing care.
Mr Attiya Abdullah, general secretary of the Sudanese doctors’ union, said the same was happening in other hospitals.With explosions, heavy gunfire and air strikes that have killed hundreds in the capital and in other parts of the country, “morgues are packed, and the streets are littered with bodies”, Mr Abdullah said.
“The RSF and the army were fighting right outside the hospital,” Mr Ibrahim said, adding that some of those evacuating were hit by gunfire themselves.“We find ourselves forced to let patients leave,” Mr Abdullah said. “If they stay, they would be killed.” With nearly three quarters of hospitals shuttered and “operational hospitals only providing emergency services”, according to Mr Abdullah, there was nowhere else Mr Mohamed could go.According to Mr Abdullah, even hospitals that have remained open, receiving mostly gunshot wounds, “are at risk of closure at any time”.
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