@addisstandardeng · Post #21933 · 03.04.2026 г., 13:05
News: ‘We watched them die before our eyes’: #Sudan health workers helpless amid medical shortages “We had to watch two of the babies die before our eyes,” said Dr. Hasan Babikir, describing the death of premature triplets he was unable to treat due to a lack of intensive care beds. As tens of thousands of people, many in urgent need of healthcare, flee the violence engulfing South #Kordofan, health workers at the El-Obeid Maternity Hospital in neighbouring North Kordofan describe dire conditions. “There’s a severe shortage of surgical and normal delivery equipment, as well as essentials such as antibiotics, surgical sutures and gloves,” Dr. Babikir told the UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency, #UNFPA. “This forces us to buy them from the market at very high prices.” The maternity hospital is the only referral hospital in western Sudan and currently serves over 230,000 displaced people, most of them women and girls facing sexual violence, hunger and https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/04/1167230