270 killed, 2,600 injured in Sudan’s violence: WHO
At least 270 people have been killed and 2,600 wounded in the violence that broke out in Sudan on Saturday, said the World Health Organisation (WHO).
“I condemn all loss of lives, and we stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in #Sudan,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s director general, in Geneva on Tuesday.
He said the aid that the WHO distributed to health facilities before the fighting has now been used up.
“Because fighting is still ongoing, it was impossible to organise further supplies,” he said. “Hospitals in the capital Khartoum do not have enough material to treat the injured.”
He added that some healthcare facilities were also looted, as some were used for military purposes.
The WHO leader called for unrestricted access to health facilities and urged those responsible to “work towards peace.”
The country’s two most powerful generals and their rival units have been battling for supremacy since Saturday.
They have led the north-eastern African country of about 46 million people since a joint military coup in 2021.
(dpa/NAN)
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