As the war in Sudan nears four months of intense fighting, morgues in the capital have reached their capacity, aid workers say, leaving thousands of corpses to rot on the streets as doctors and relief organizations warn of a looming cholera outbreak.
Khartoum’s morgues have reached “breaking point,” international aid group Save The Children said Tuesday. Bodies in the morgues are also decomposing as prolonged power outages have left them without refrigeration, the group said. There is also no medical staff left, leaving the corpses “exposed and untreated.
Bashir Kamal Eldin Hamid, Save the Children’s Health and Nutrition Director, in a Tuesday statement. “We are seeing a health crisis in the making, on top of a crisis of sorrow, fear and pain,” he said. Escalating fighting The conflict escalated again this week, with both rival forces claiming to have inflicted heavy damage on the other. No decisive breakthroughs or peace talks are in sight.
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