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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health
Organization, said the agency has documented 65 attacks on
health facilities since January. The attacks also left 276
people wounded.
The most recent was a drone attack on Sunday on a military
hospital in Diling, the capital of South Kordofan province,
which in recent months became a flashpoint in the fighting
between the Sudanese military and the paramilitary Rapid Support
Forces.
Ghebreyesus said the attack killed nine people and wounded 17.
“Every attack deprives more people from health services and
medicines – needs that do not pause while facilities are rebuilt
and services restored,” he said in a post on X.
The Sudan Doctor’s Network, a group of medical professionals
tracking the war, blamed the paramilitary forces for the drone
attack that targeted the miliary hospital in Diling.
The causalities in Diling were among at least 104 people killed
in attacks across Kordofan region since Dec. 4, according to
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk.
The attacks on healthcare facilities included an RSF offensive
on the Saudi Hospital in the Darfur city of el-Fasher in
October. The WHO said gunmen killed at least 460 people at the
hospital, and abducted doctors and nurses.
Sudan plunge into chaos in April 2023 when a power struggle
between the military and the RSF exploded into open fighting in
the capital, Khartoum and elsewhere in the country.
The war, now in its third year, has killed more than 40,000
people, according to U.N. figures, though aid groups say that is
an undercount and the true number could be many times higher.
The conflict has also created the world’s largest humanitarian
crisis, with over 14 million people forced to flee their homes,
disease outbreaks and famine spreading in parts of the country.
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