More than 400 people have been killed and over 3,500 others hurt in the fighting in Sudan, the World Health Organization said Friday.
âFour hundred and thirteen people have died and 3,551 people have been injured ⊠that we know of,â WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told reporters at a press briefing in Geneva.
The UN childrenâs agency UNICEF added that at least nine children were among the dead and more than 50 children had been wounded.
Citing Sudanese health ministry figures, Harris said 20 health facilities had stopped functioning and another 12 were at risk of stopping.
This would affect ânot only the people who have been injured during this terrible fighting, but the people who were needing treatment beforeâ, she noted.
âItâs taking a devastating toll on the countryâs children,â UNICEF spokesman James Elder told reporters.
âAs long as fighting continues, children will continue to pay the price.
âThe fighting means many families are trapped, with little or no access to electricity, terrified of running out of food, water and medicine.â
He said Sudan already had one of the worldâs highest rates of child malnutrition, with critical life-saving care now disrupted for an estimated 50,000 severely acutely malnourished children.
âThis is life-threatening,â he said.
The most critical cases are âbeing fed with tubes because thatâs literally the only way they can be fedâ, said Elder.
âWhen the bombing or shelling begins outside the hospital and where medical staff need to flee, then what?â…
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