Khartoum, 17 Apr. The Sudanese Doctors Union denounced today that hospitals in Khartoum and other cities in the country are being attacked and several of them have been “completely out of service” during clashes between the Army and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (FAR). .
“Hospitals and medical centers in Khartoum and other cities in Sudan were shelled with cannons and firearms,” the union said in a statement, noting that three hospitals in the capital have suffered “serious damage” after three days of violent clashes. .
They also indicated that the university hospitals of Al Shaab and Khartoum “were completely out of service” due to the bombardments, which “have created a state of confusion and terror among medical personnel, patients, children and their companions.”
The union recalled that on Sunday a hospital in the capital had to be evacuated and now remains out of service like so many others, at a time when the fighting has intensified and has left 97 dead among the civilian population, in addition to almost thousand wounded.
Several other hospitals in the town of Al Obeid and Bahri were also victims of attacks and had to be evacuated, while the institution indicated that other centers suffer severe power cuts and shortages, which prevents the treatment of patients.
“We had called on the parties in conflict not to attack the health centers, but the exact opposite has happened,” the union denounced in the note.
In this sense, he urged the international community to “force” the Army and the FAR not to damage hospitals, to open humanitarian corridors and to allow ambulances to pass through.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN itself have already made several calls for the integrity of hospitals to be respected, in addition to calling for a ceasefire.
Sudan entered the third day of fighting between the Armed Forces and the FAR this Monday, a conflict that has so far left 97 civilians dead, almost a thousand injured, and is bringing the country to the brink of war.
On Sunday the parties agreed, at the proposal of the UN, to open humanitarian corridors and cease hostilities for a brief period of three hours, but the United Nations was “extremely disappointed” today that the truce was not respected. EFE
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