2023-05-02 10:00:23
In a hospital, in El Fasher (North Darfur), on April 19. ALI SHUKUR/MSF/AFP
In Khartoum as in Darfur, the health system is in agony, while the wounded from the fighting are pouring in.
“We are all tired, we have been working tirelessly for two weeks, there are twenty of us to keep the hospital going with the wounded arriving every day. I don’t know how long we’ll be able to hold out.”, says, dejected, Howida al-Hassan, gynecologist at the Alban-Gadid hospital in Sharg el-Nil. In this suburb to the east of the Sudanese capital, all the other hospitals have closed.
Since the beginning of the conflict, which pits the Sudanese army against the militias of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and whose violence redoubled on Friday despite a truce in principle extended, medical infrastructures have been regularly targeted: Almoalim, Faydel, Alshourta , Alshaab… and the list just keeps growing. Last victim to date, the Roumi hospital, hit on Wednesday by rocket fire causing several injuries and forcing the transfer of patients to one of the few hospitals still standing. The establishments spared by the bombs must face other…
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