MSF confirms eleven deaths in a hospital in the Sudanese region of Darfur alone

17 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has confirmed eleven deaths among the 136 injured people to whom it has provided medical care at the hospital it supports in El Fasher, in North Darfur since Saturday and due to intense fighting between the Army and paramilitaries. of the Rapid Support Force (RSF).

Most of the injured are civilians caught in the crossfire. “Among them there are many children. They have extremely serious injuries and, until Saturday afternoon, there was no surgical capacity in this hospital,” said the coordinator of the MSF project in El Fasher, Cyrus Paye.

“All the other hospitals in North Darfur have had to close, either because of their proximity to the fighting or because staff were unable to reach the facilities due to the violence” and therefore there was no other center to refer to. the wounded, Paye explained.

Finally on Saturday afternoon they managed to get a small team of surgeons from other centers to start performing surgeries at the hospital. “So far, they have performed six major surgeries on people injured by violence,” he stressed. However, the hospital is rapidly running out of medical supplies, medicine and blood for transfusions.

MSF has teams in other regions of the country such as Khartoum, Darfur, North Kordofan and Gedaref. In Nyala, South Darfur, their facilities and warehouses have been ransacked.

TRAPPED TEAMS

In the capital Khartoum, “most of the teams are pinned down by heavy fighting” and unable to access warehouses to deliver “vital” medical supplies to hospitals.

“Even ambulances are not being allowed to pass to retrieve the bodies of the deceased from the streets, or to transport the injured to hospital,” MSF has denounced.

The toilets have been on duty for “many hours”, providing vital care in “extremely difficult circumstances and despite the impact that the situation has also had on them and on their own families.”

MSF also warns that “at this time it is too dangerous to move within Khartoum and other cities” and people who need health care “cannot reach any of the health centers that are open.”