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Mashup Score: 530
Guest Column – Today marks one year since conflict between rival military leaders broke out in Sudan. Many Sudanese have fled across the border into Chad, including those from Darfur – where news organizations and aid agencies are warning of a return to the widespread genocide and mass rapes in Darfur that began in 2003. On Friday, the BBC’s Barbara Plett-Usher [@BBCBarbaraPlett] reported from northern Darfur that among those who fled their homes, a child is dying every two minutes. This guest column by Dr. Tedros
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Mashup Score: 83
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that the crisis in Sudan could worsen in the coming months as the distribution of humanitarian aid and medical supplies remains restricted.
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Peace is long overdue in #Sudan. We call for safe, sustained humanitarian access. Millions of lives depend on it. https://t.co/WyACQLa4Hk
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Mashup Score: 1Fighting in Sudan threatens its already fragile healthcare system - 5 month(s) ago
The intense violence in Sudan is destroying a health system already on its knees, writes Sonia Sarkar Trainee anaesthetist Mazin Abd-alaal Helali was attending an emergency surgery at the government run Khartoum North Teaching Hospital in the Sudanese capital when three bullets pierced the glass windows of the operating theatre. While 29 year old Helali was busy moving the patient to the recovery room, minutes later a bomb fell on the septic theatre, a floor above. “The patient in the septic theatre suffered minor injuries by the shelling but he was shifted out immediately,” Helali told The BMJ. “We were petrified to witness such bombing on the hospital. We never saw this before.” More than 530 people, including 11 healthcare staff, have been killed and 4000 others injured in this African country of 47.9 million people, after violence between the Sudanese armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF) broke out on 15 April over power sharing.1 Besides the cities of Khartou
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As the fighting intensifies in #Sudan, read this feature from earlier this year on how the ongoing violence is destroying a health system already on its knees https://t.co/TXTN36i6mI
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Mashup Score: 0Fighting in Sudan threatens its already fragile healthcare system - 5 month(s) ago
The intense violence in Sudan is destroying a health system already on its knees, writes Sonia Sarkar Trainee anaesthetist Mazin Abd-alaal Helali was attending an emergency surgery at the government run Khartoum North Teaching Hospital in the Sudanese capital when three bullets pierced the glass windows of the operating theatre. While 29 year old Helali was busy moving the patient to the recovery room, minutes later a bomb fell on the septic theatre, a floor above. “The patient in the septic theatre suffered minor injuries by the shelling but he was shifted out immediately,” Helali told The BMJ. “We were petrified to witness such bombing on the hospital. We never saw this before.” More than 530 people, including 11 healthcare staff, have been killed and 4000 others injured in this African country of 47.9 million people, after violence between the Sudanese armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF) broke out on 15 April over power sharing.1 Besides the cities of Khartou
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As the fighting intensifies in #Sudan, read this feature from earlier this year on how the ongoing violence is destroying a health system already on its knees https://t.co/TXTN36i6mI
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Mashup Score: 65Women and girls hit hard by attacks on health in Sudan, UN agencies warn - 11 month(s) ago
The World Health Organization and UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, today warned that the continuing attacks on healthcare facilities, equipment and workers in Sudan are depriving women and girls of life-saving healthcare, with pregnant women hardest hit. Some 67% of hospitals in areas affected by fighting are closed, and several maternity hospitals are out of…
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.@WHO and @UNFPA warn: continuing attacks on healthcare in #Sudan are depriving women and girls of life-saving healthcare, with pregnant women hardest hit. We call on the warring parties to restore essential services and withdraw forces from hospitals. https://t.co/q2H2DjKMLt
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WHO is appealing for a total of US$ 145.2 million to respond to the needs for June-December 2023 of 7.6 million people in need of urgent health assistance in Sudan and almost 500 000 individuals forced to flee to neighbouring Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia and South Sudan.
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Two months of heightened violence in #Sudan have severely impacted health care, leaving 11 million people in need of health assistance. @WHO is appealing for $145.2 million to respond to the needs, incl. to support refugees in neighbouring countries. https://t.co/ksOMAqStZ5
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Mashup Score: 4Fighting in Sudan threatens its already fragile healthcare system - 12 month(s) ago
The intense violence in Sudan is destroying a health system already on its knees, writes Sonia Sarkar Trainee anaesthetist Mazin Abd-alaal Helali was attending an emergency surgery at the government run Khartoum North Teaching Hospital in the Sudanese capital when three bullets pierced the glass windows of the operating theatre. While 29 year old Helali was busy moving the patient to the…
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“We were petrified to witness such bombing on the hospital. We never saw this before.” The intense violence in #Sudan is destroying a health system already on its knees, writes @sonia_26 https://t.co/oRn6m0W7FI
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الخرطوم: عادل سنادةكشفت مصادر مطلعة، على انه سيتم اليوم، توقيع اتفاق هدنة إنسانية بين الجيش والدعم السريع في مدينة جدة، يوقف فيها إطلاق النار لمدة 7 أيام تبدأ بعد 48 ساعة من التوقيع، يتم فيها خروج المتمردين من المستشفيات ويتم إصلاح وصيانة الخدم
Source: صحيفة السودانيCategories: Hematologists1, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
RT @atafmohamed3: مصادر: اليوم التوقيع على اتفاق هدنة إنسانية يوقف فيها إطلاق النار لمدة 7 أيام #السودان #sudan https://t.co/vyF0rwDeWp
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Mashup Score: 1Contingency Fund for Emergencies - 1 year(s) ago
Contingency Fund for Emergencies
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In conflict zones such as #Ukraine and #Sudan, CFE funding allows WHO to support refugees and health workers with essential medical supplies and services, and even with fuel to keep health services running. https://t.co/VDhpVZX8J0 https://t.co/SaKbPuEXWL https://t.co/E0mgOgTR8n
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Mashup Score: 4Urgently needed emergency health supplies arrive in Port Sudan from WHO’s logistics hub in Dubai - 1 year(s) ago
Cairo, 05 May 2023 – Thirty metric tons of urgently needed trauma and emergency surgical supplies arrived in Port Sudan today aboard a chartered flight from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Logistics Hub in Dubai. Pending security and access clearances, the supplies will be distributed to 13 health facilities across the country to assist in emergency surgical procedures and trauma care to…
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.@WHO’s trauma and emergency surgical supplies - enough to serve 165,000 people - arrived in Port #Sudan from our Logistics Hub in Dubai. Pending security and access clearances, the supplies will be distributed to 13 health facilities across the country. https://t.co/iG6evTA9Cs https://t.co/CQI47j9NKc
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Every second person in #Sudan is in need of humanitarian assistance. There’s still time to avert the worst but we need: - humanitarian access across borders, and humanitarian corridors; - attacks on health to end; - funding to meet the vast health needs. https://t.co/QPBS9xDKSv