2023-04-16 22:54:40
According to the World Health Organization, at least 83 people have died and more than 1,126 others have been injured in the fighting in Sudan. The WHO announced this on Sunday evening in Geneva. People have died in the state of Khartoum with the capital of the same name, in South Kordofan, North Darfur and other regions since last Thursday.
According to the WHO, the hospitals in the Sudanese capital, which is home to around six million people, are overwhelmed by the heavy fighting in Khartoum over the weekend. Many of the nine hospitals taking in injured civilians lack blood, transfusion supplies and other medical supplies. Water and power outages and a lack of fuel for the hospitals’ power generators made operations even more difficult. Specialists such as anesthesiologists are also missing.
In recent days, the long-simmering conflict between Sudan’s de facto President Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, leader of the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has escalated. The military apparatuses of both camps fight each other with heavy artillery, tanks and air raids, among other things. Due to ongoing fighting in densely populated parts of the city, even higher casualties are feared.
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