![]() Right now, there are no medical services at all. “Medical services collapsed on the first day of the fighting. That there is no continuous electric power at hospitals,” he adds. “The biggest challenge is that there is no fuel. He said the staff was willing to keep on working if they had electricity. The hospital he works at in central Khartoum was shuttered on the first day of the fighting. Even ambulances are not let through,” Abdel Moniem Al-Tayeb tells CNN. “The biggest challenge facing medical staff trying to reach hospitals is the lack of safe passages. ![]() Nineteen hospitals were directly hit and evacuated, while others were shuttered for various reasons, including security threats, power cuts, and the inability of the medical staff to safely reach their hospitalsĬNN spoke to several physicians and hospital staff in Khartoum, who described their frustration with not being able to serve those most in need. Only 23 hospitals are open out of 82 in the capital and other states witnessing fighting, according to the Central Committee for Sudan Doctors on Wednesday. They reveal what the doctors and nurses in the two dozen operating hospitals are doing to keep the injured alive, with little and dwindling supplies. ![]() In a series of videos, photos and messages Alhassan shared with CNN, she provides a glimpse into the life of Khartoum residents during two weeks of gun battles, shelling and airstrikes as Sudan’s Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces battle for control of the country. The staff at the hospital have been working around the clock since the fighting started in Sudan. Rival generals are battling for control in Sudan. Each surgery takes a long time,” she says, stressing how dangerous it is for civilians to walk down the streets of the capital.Ībdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo Getty Images Every injury we get has multiple gunshot wounds – bullets in the chest, stomach, leg. Most of the other injuries she treated and saw are the result of bullets. The rest of the family have various injuries,” she says almost mechanically. “They were two brothers and their cousin. And in the third, another boy lies in a red T-shirt darkened by the blood from wounds that pierce his jaw. In the second photo, the brain of a young boy is visible through a gaping hole in his skull that extends from his forehead to the top of the head. One shows a boy with a severed leg, his muscles and bones pouring out of the skin that once held his thigh to the hip. “The kids were playing when a mortar hit their house,” she says over the phone after she shares three pictures of their lifeless bodies wrapped in blood-soaked bedsheets. In the deluge of gunshot wounds and war injuries at the small Alban Gedid hospital in Khartoum, Dr Howida AlHassand distinctly remembers the family killed in their house.
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