Approximately one in six war-wounded patients treated since January 2024 at the Bashair Teaching hospital in south Khartoum, Sudan, have been children under the age of 15 years old. Many of these children have suffered gunshot, blast, and shrapnel wounds.
On top of this, doctors are concerned about the spike in children arriving at the hospital with severe malnutrition.
Bashair Teaching hospital is one of the last functioning hospitals in south Khartoum, providing emergency care, surgery, and maternity services. This care is critical for war-wounded children, like the 314 who have been treated at the hospital for gunshot and blast wounds so far in 2024. In other circumstances, patients like Riyad would be referred outside of Bashair Teaching hospital for the care they need. But even that is difficult now; transport routes have been destroyed or are far too dangerous to travel.
"Cases like this are common," says Dr Moeen*."Thankfully that little girl survived. Others are not so lucky."
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