May 7. (EUROPE PRESS) –
Some thirty tons of urgent supplies have arrived in Sudan this weekend in what is the first air shipment organized by the World Health Organization and the United Arab Emirates since the outbreak of the conflict between the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on April 15.
The plane, loaded with supplies for the treatment of wounded, emergency surgeries and essential medicines, arrived at the airport of Port Sudan, on the country’s coast and a city considered a safe point from the fighting, early on Saturday.
This shipment will fill the gap left by the supplies that the WHO had in the country, and which ran out, according to the organization, a few days after the start of the conflict. Both parties maintain a theoretical ceasefire, pending a peace negotiation in Saudi Arabia, but in reality skirmishes continue to be the order of the day, especially in the capital, Khartoum.
The shipment, valued at almost 400,000 euros, includes enough trauma, emergency surgical supplies and essential medicines to immediately reach 165,000 people in desperate need of humanitarian aid, according to WHO estimates.
WHO has another 30 metric tons of supplies for malaria and non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, conditions that can become fatal if left untreated.
These supplies, along with some 23,000 blood bags, are being prepared at the WHO’s global logistics center in Dubai International Humanitarian City, and the UN agency is “currently exploring all possibilities to deliver these supplies to Sudan as soon as possible.” quickly as possible in collaboration with the Ministry of Health” of the African country.
