Another horrific attack at a hospital in Sudan has seen more than 40 people killed, many of them children and medics.
“We can't say that stronger” Wrote tedros adhanom ghebreyesus on x On Tuesday, “Health attacks have to stop everywhere!”
Al-Mudzhad Hospital was hit on Saturday and is located in West Cordofan, near one of the front lines where Sudan's warring parties are fighting in the conflict, which is now his third year.
The rapid support forces (RSF) blames the Sudanese army for attacking the hospital, as well as two prominent groups of civil society, but the army itself has not yet commented on the claim.
Since Sudan's Civil War began in April 2023, the scale of suffering has been so broad that the UN has indicated it the world's largest humanitarian crisis.
In addition to the murder of many thousands of civilians, which in one part of the country is described by the United States as genocideand the displacement of millions more, both parties to this conflict are charged with committing military crimes in medical institutions and staff, According to evidence observed by BBC News ArabicS
Al Mughal Hospital, in the town of Mugad, was “the only functioning health facility in the area”, According to the network of doctors in SudanS
Out of over 40 people killed, six of them were children and five were healthcare workers, The WHO service in Sudan said on SundayS Dozens of other people were also injured, she added.
The most important thing is that the hospital operates a dialysis ward and focused on civilian care, unlike soldiers, According to the emergency lawyer groupwho documents abuses both RSF and the army.
Both the network of doctors in Sudan and the emergency lawyer group claim that the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) are to blame for the attack on Saturday.
But the body of the doctors says the reason for the attack is that the army is trying to kill RSF fighters located at Al Milad Hospital. RSF has not commented on this claim or the army.
On Monday, the head of the UN Children's Agency, UNICEF, warned of a “deteriorating crisis” for children caused by the Sudan Civil War, and said the answer to the aid did not have two -thirds of the necessary funding.
Visiting refugees in neighboring Chad, Catherine Russell said that “hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable children carry the main weight of both the war in Sudan and the lack of basic services for those who have fled to Chad.”
Many children are “malnourished, out of school and with a serious risk of operation and illness,” she added.
Among the most painful stories that come out of Sudan's war is The evidence that armed men rape and sexually attend children so smallS Some children have tried to end their own lives as a result.