Evacuations of stranded Nigerian students in Sudan have started. The students will be taken to Egypt and eventually flown to Nigeria, according to the chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission.
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"Most hospitals in Khartoum are not functioning. Emergency departments are operating in some hospitals, but it takes many hours to be seen by a doctor. If you go in with a gunshot wound, you have to wait seven hours to be seen. You will bleed in the waiting room for seven hours."Omer works as a primary care doctor in a suburb which he describes as"relatively safe".
"Cancer patients are on hold. People are coming to me to ask for cancer medicines as they cannot get them from their usual hospitals."
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