According to Abdullah, even the hospitals that remain open, mostly for gunshot wounds, “are at risk of closing at any moment”.
“They don’t have enough surgical equipment, not enough fuel to run generators, not enough ambulances or blood.”
The WHO said 413 people were killed and 3,551 wounded in the fighting across Sudan, but the actual death toll is believed to be much higher, as doctors and humanitarian workers have been unable to reach those in need.
“The same team is working for eight days in some hospitals”, Abdullah told AFP.
“Some have only one surgeon. Everyone is exhausted.”
Medics have made daily appeals for a ceasefire to allow humanitarian access to proceed, transport the wounded and bury the dead.
But brief lulls in fighting in Khartoum have been replaced by repeated rounds of gunfire, puncturing momentary lulls, and no semblance of calm has taken hold.
As citizens rally on social media to find any source of medicine for chronically ill relatives, UNICEF warns that power cuts and fuel shortages could cost more than $40 million worth of vaccines and insulin in cold storages. Endangering storage.
On Friday, as a third cease-fire failed, the doctors’ association shared advice on Facebook on how to handle, shroud and bury decomposing bodies.
