At least 528 people have died and more than 4,500 have been injured by the clashes that began two weeks ago between the Army of Sudan and the powerful Rapid Support Forces (FAR) paramilitary group, the Sudanese Ministry of Health said in a statement today.
“The cumulative total of injuries is 4,599 and 528 deaths have been recorded in all hospitals in the different states of Sudan,” the department said. These figures were counted between the first day of fighting, April 15, and Thursday the 27th.
#SudanCrisis
Speaking from Sudan @A Humanitarian Coordinator told reporters in New York that:
⏺️Needs are urgent and widespread
⏺️Hundreds have been killed, and thousands wounded
⏺️Only 16 per cent of health facilities are operating as normal⏩ https://t.co/ectjzuGaf3 pic.twitter.com/Yd6lNoOqpe
— United Nations Sudan (@UN_Sudan) April 28, 2023
The Ministry, according to an agency report efeindicated that the number of deaths could be much higher due to the impossibility of medical teams to access the most violent areas and because most of the hospitals in the states where the fighting is taking place have been put out of service.
He also noted that in most Sudanese states there is a “relative calm” except for the capital, Khartoum, and in Western Darfur, in western Sudan and where the conflict is acquiring tribal and ethnic overtones.
The upsurge in violence in Western Darfur, according to the Ministry of Health, has caused “the destruction of the main hospital in El Geneina”, the capital of this troubled state, in which in just two days, between 24 and 25 April, the Sudanese Doctors Union reported that more than 70 people had been killed.
The ministry assured that it has enabled health centers in Khartoum and that “communication with hospitals has improved”, where a total of 54 surgeries have been carried out in recent days, despite the pressing shortage of medical material and supplies in the country. country.
Sudan calls for no international interference to defuse clashes
Sudan today entered the third week of clashes between the Army and the FAR, despite the extension of a 72-hour truce, which has not been respected at any time but has allowed the evacuations of foreigners and the displacement of the population civilian to safer areas, aims efe.
According to figures from the United Nations and other institutions, since last the 15th nearly 50,000 people have fled Sudanese territory to neighboring countries, mainly to Chad, South Sudan and Egypt.
