Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said about 85 people have died in a hospital in the town of El-Fasher in Darfur, Sudan since fighting broke out between the warring parties in Sudan on May 10, 2024.
According to Claire Nicolet, the head of the organization’s emergency program, nine of the 60 injured who were admitted to the only remaining hospital in El-Fasher, died on Monday alone.
Since fighting broke out in the capital of North Darfur state, the hospital has received “707 wounded” and “85 have died”.
For more than a year, fighting has been going on between the government army under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the RSF militia led by Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.
El-Fasher is the only major city in the Darfur region, that is not under the control of the RSF and is the center of humanitarian aid in the region on the brink of famine. UN: Heavy weapons fighting in El-Fasher in Sudan
This month, El-Fasher has been the center of fierce fighting despite repeated calls, including from the United Nations, for fighters to save the city.
Witnesses have reported gunfire from both sides, as well as airstrikes from the military. Trapped in their homes by the fighting, many residents are unable to withstand the violence on the streets to take their injured loved ones to the hospital. UN: Sudan is facing violence and lack of aid
The MSF organization says that the wounded who arrive at the South Hospital are attended to by “only one surgeon and put that” under great pressure”. The war has caused more than 70 percent of health centers across the country to be closed and those that remain provide care in poor conditions.
Nicolet added that the hospital in the south has only 10 days of equipment left, and asked the warring parties to allow the deployment of medical equipment. WFP delivers food aid to Darfur
Since the war began, thousands of people have been killed, including nearly 15,000 people in one town in West Darfur, according to UN experts.
About nine million people have been forced to flee their homes. At the end of April, North Darfur alone hosted more than half a million people who fled their homes last year, according to UN figures.
