WHO<\/a> chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. \u201cEnough suffering has been inflicted. The time has come to de-escalate the conflict in Sudan and ensure the protection of civilians, health workers and humanitarians.\u201d<\/p>\nTo date, the total number of fatalities linked to attacks on health facilities has now surpassed 2,000 during Sudan\u2019s war, which began in April 2023 between rival militaries.<\/p>\n
Deaths, injuries and damages<\/p>\n
Over the nearly three-year conflict, WHO has confirmed that 2,036 people have been killed in 213 attacks on health care, including Friday night\u2019s strike in Al Deain.<\/p>\n
This latest attack also injured 89 people, including eight health staff, and damaged the hospital\u2019s paediatric, maternity and emergency departments.<\/p>\n
In total, more than 720 people have been injured in attacks on health care during the war to date.<\/p>\n
Long-term consequences<\/p>\n
Beyond the devastating human toll, attacks on health care have immediate and long-term consequences for communities already in desperate need of both emergency and routine medical services.<\/p>\n
Al Deain Teaching Hospital is currently non-functional due to the extensive damage caused by the attack, resulting in a critical interruption of essential medical services.<\/p>\n
WHO is supporting local health partners to help fill urgent gaps by scaling up capacity at other health facilities. This includes:<\/p>\n
strengthening primary health care services to provide outpatient, paediatric and obstetric careincreasing capacity to treat the injureddeploying trauma care supplies and essential medicines<\/p>\n
\u201cHealth care should never be a target,\u201d the WHO chief said. \u201cPeace is the best medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Al Deain Teaching Hospital in East Darfur\u2019s capital, Al Deain, was struck late Friday, killing scores of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":["post-559088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}