Sudanese capital and its twin city across the Nile, Omdurman, have become a deadly battleground
It took the 16-year-old three days to travel just a handful of miles to get to hospital, and he may have died if the bullet had not made a clean entry and exit out of his body.has become a life-threatening endeavour. Khartoum descended into an intense city-wide firefight this week, which has also engulfed much of its twin city across the Nile, Omdurman.
A man looks at belongings inside a house damaged during clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum.His nephew had been waiting for doctors to decide when to take him into the operating theatre. “He might still have shrapnel inside his body,” his uncle said. Still operational, the Omdurman teaching hospital has received about 300 wounded civilians and soldiers, mostly from Omdurman and north Khartoum, but fewer cases from Khartoum, where the fighting is centred.
El-Sir is worried that his depleted staff will not be able to continue doing their jobs “We lack staff. The ones we have here have been exhausted – they have been working for four days and many of them haven’t seen their families and children since before the start of the war. At some point they will stop working unless things change.”
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