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Friend, we're sending you an urgent update on the rapidly escalating situation in Sudan that’s endangering our patients and staff. Civilians are being wounded and killed by ongoing fighting, many of them children.
In the past 72 hours, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff have treated 183 wounded patients at our hospital in North Darfur. Tragically, 25 of them died from their injuries.
The MSF-supported hospital in El Fasher is rapidly running out of surgical equipment, medicines, and blood. Violent conflict has shut down the airport, cutting off access to additional medical supplies.
Across Sudan, our teams are facing enormous challenges as we attempt to deliver medical aid to people caught in the crossfire. In Khartoum, for example, MSF staff are trapped by heavy ongoing fighting, unable to access warehouses to deliver vital medical supplies to hospitals. Local ambulances are being blocked from transporting the injured to hospitals—or even from retrieving the bodies of the dead from the streets. However, a small team of surgeons began carrying out surgical interventions on Saturday, and so far, they have carried out six major surgeries on people wounded by the violence.
We are urgently calling on all parties involved in the conflict to respect the safety of medical staff and patients.
This email was sent from the U.S. section of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, and exclusion from health care.
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