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Yahoo
27-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Sudan 'on brink' of health crisis with cholera outbreak
War-torn Sudan is now "on the brink" of a public health disaster as cholera and other deadly diseases spread, aid group, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) has warned. In just one week, Sudan's Health Ministry recorded that 172 people have died due to a cholera outbreak, posting on Facebook that most of the new cases are in Khartoum state. According to local doctors, cited by Sudanese media, drone attacks have caused power outages at water purification stations, which has left people with no choice but to use unclean water. IRC country director for Sudan Eatizaz Yousif said the civil war - now in its thrid year - "is fuelling the resurgence of cholera". In a statement, the IRC emphasised that cholera vaccine coverage was "low" and "essential supplies dwindling". The medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has warned of reports of "thousands of suspected cholera cases" in Khartoum since the middle of last month. Its medical co-ordinator in the country, Slaymen Ammar, stated that "the conflict has clearly compromised basic infrastructure". In a press release, he said that healthcare in parts of the capital was "either unavailable or unaffordable", adding that "many of the remaining health workers had no choice but to leave" due to fighting. Mr Ammar adds that the few remaining health facilities are overwhelmed. As many as 500 cases of cholera were reported in just one day in the past week in Khartoum, MSF said. Aside from the Khartoum area, cases were also cited in northern and southern Sudan, the AFP news agency reports. Most people with cholera have mild symptoms or none at all. However, the disease can be a fatal if it causes severe diarrhoea, requiring antibiotics and IV fluids for treatment, according to the World Health Organization. More than 150,000 people have been killed during Sudan's conflict, which began over two years ago when Sudan's army and the RSF began a vicious struggle for power. Millions have been forced from their homes and the conflict has plunged the country into what the UN calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis. No water, no power - Port Sudan reeling after week of attacks Drone attacks raise stakes in new phase of Sudan's civil war WATCH: 'They ransacked my home, and left my town in ruins' Go to for more news from the African continent. Follow us on Twitter @BBCAfrica, on Facebook at BBC Africa or on Instagram at bbcafrica Africa Daily Focus on Africa
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Sudan 'on brink' of health crisis with cholera outbreak
War-torn Sudan is now "on the brink" of a public health disaster as cholera and other deadly diseases spread, aid group, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) has warned. In just one week, Sudan's Health Ministry recorded that 172 people have died due to a cholera outbreak, posting on Facebook that most of the new cases are in Khartoum state. According to local doctors, cited by Sudanese media, drone attacks have caused power outages at water purification stations, which has left people with no choice but to use unclean water. IRC country director for Sudan Eatizaz Yousif said the civil war - now in its thrid year - "is fuelling the resurgence of cholera". In a statement, the IRC emphasised that cholera vaccine coverage was "low" and "essential supplies dwindling". The medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has warned of reports of "thousands of suspected cholera cases" in Khartoum since the middle of last month. Its medical co-ordinator in the country, Slaymen Ammar, stated that "the conflict has clearly compromised basic infrastructure". In a press release, he said that healthcare in parts of the capital was "either unavailable or unaffordable", adding that "many of the remaining health workers had no choice but to leave" due to fighting. Mr Ammar adds that the few remaining health facilities are overwhelmed. As many as 500 cases of cholera were reported in just one day in the past week in Khartoum, MSF said. Aside from the Khartoum area, cases were also cited in northern and southern Sudan, the AFP news agency reports. Most people with cholera have mild symptoms or none at all. However, the disease can be a fatal if it causes severe diarrhoea, requiring antibiotics and IV fluids for treatment, according to the World Health Organization. More than 150,000 people have been killed during Sudan's conflict, which began over two years ago when Sudan's army and the RSF began a vicious struggle for power. Millions have been forced from their homes and the conflict has plunged the country into what the UN calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis. No water, no power - Port Sudan reeling after week of attacks Drone attacks raise stakes in new phase of Sudan's civil war WATCH: 'They ransacked my home, and left my town in ruins' Go to for more news from the African continent. Follow us on Twitter @BBCAfrica, on Facebook at BBC Africa or on Instagram at bbcafrica Africa Daily Focus on Africa
BBC News
27-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Sudan war: Country 'on brink' of health disaster as cholera spreads
War-torn Sudan is now "on the brink" of a public health disaster as cholera and other deadly diseases spread, aid group, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) has just one week, Sudan's Health Ministry recorded that 172 people have died due to a cholera outbreak, posting on Facebook that most of the new cases are in Khartoum state. According to local doctors, cited by Sudanese media, drone attacks have caused power outages at water purification stations, which has left people with no choice but to use unclean country director for Sudan Eatizaz Yousif said the civil war - now in its thrid year - "is fuelling the resurgence of cholera". In a statement, the IRC emphasised that cholera vaccine coverage was "low" and "essential supplies dwindling".The medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has warned of reports of "thousands of suspected cholera cases" in Khartoum since the middle of last medical co-ordinator in the country, Slaymen Ammar, stated that "the conflict has clearly compromised basic infrastructure".In a press release, he said that healthcare in parts of the capital was "either unavailable or unaffordable", adding that "many of the remaining health workers had no choice but to leave" due to Ammar adds that the few remaining health facilities are many as 500 cases of cholera were reported in just one day in the past week in Khartoum, MSF from the Khartoum area, cases were also cited in northern and southern Sudan, the AFP news agency people with cholera have mild symptoms or none at all. However, the disease can be a fatal if it causes severe diarrhoea, requiring antibiotics and IV fluids for treatment, according to the World Health than 150,000 people have been killed during Sudan's conflict, which began over two years ago when Sudan's army and the RSF began a vicious struggle for have been forced from their homes and the conflict has plunged the country into what the UN calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis. More BBC News stories about Sudan: No water, no power - Port Sudan reeling after week of attacksDrone attacks raise stakes in new phase of Sudan's civil warWATCH: 'They ransacked my home, and left my town in ruins' Go to for more news from the African us on Twitter @BBCAfrica, on Facebook at BBC Africa or on Instagram at bbcafrica
Time of India
27-05-2025
- Health
- Time of India
Sudan cholera outbreak kills 172 in one week
. Sudan's health ministry reported on Tuesday a spike in cholera cases in the war-torn country, with 2,700 infections and 172 deaths in one week. In a statement, the ministry said 90 percent of cases were reported in Khartoum state, where water and electricity supply have been severely disrupted in recent weeks by drone strikes blamed on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), at war with the army since April 2023. Cases were also reported in the south, centre and north of the country. Cholera is endemic to Sudan, but outbreaks have become far worse and more frequent since the war broke out, wrecking already fragile water and sanitation and health infrastructure. Last Tuesday, the ministry said 51 people had died of cholera out of more than 2,300 reported cases over the past three weeks, 90 percent of them in Khartoum state. The RSF this month launched drone strikes across Khartoum, including on three power stations, before being completely pushed out of their last holdout positions in the capital last week. The strikes knocked electricity and subsequently the local water network out of service, according to Doctors without Borders (MSF), forcing residents to turn to unsafe water sources. "Water treatment stations no longer have electricity and cannot provide clean water from the Nile," Slaymen Ammar, MSF's medical coordinator in Khartoum, said in a statement. Cholera, an acute diarrhoeal illness caused by ingesting contaminated water or food, can kill within hours if untreated. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Trade Bitcoin & Ethereum – No Wallet Needed! IC Markets Start Now Undo Yet it is easily preventable and treatable when clean water, sanitation and timely medical care are available. Sudan's already fragile healthcare system has been pushed to "breaking point" by the war, according to the World Health Organisation. Up to 90 percent of the country's hospitals have at some point been forced to close because of the fighting, according to the doctors' union, with health facilities regularly stormed, bombed and looted. The war, now in its third year, has killed tens of thousands, displaced 13 million and created the world's largest displacement and hunger crisis.
Zawya
09-05-2025
- Health
- Zawya
Sudan: Médecins sans frontières (MSF) returns to Khartoum's Bashair Teaching hospital amidst soaring cholera needs
Exactly two years after Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) first worked in south Khartoum's Bashair Teaching hospital, Sudan, our team is again joining the hospital's Ministry of Health staff in partnership to meet people's immense needs. MSF suspended activities at the hospital in January 2025 after repeated violent incidents. Our initial focus will be the worrying and growing cholera outbreak. 'Our team in Bashair Teaching hospital has been working to ensure that the 20-bed cholera treatment unit is ready to receive patients. Training for over 60 hospital staff members has been completed, and cholera-related medical supplies have arrived at the hospital,' says Slaymen Ammar, MSF medical coordinator for Sudan. 'The war has had a devastating impact on people's access to healthcare. The population in many localities within the capital, including south Khartoum, still don't have the needed access to essential, life-saving healthcare.' 'Restarting and expanding critical health services in Bashair Hospital and beyond can't wait – it was needed yesterday,' says Ammar. Like many health facilities in Khartoum and across Sudan, Bashair Teaching hospital stopped functioning when war first broke out in April 2023. A few weeks later, medics and volunteers reopened it to ensure the community could still access healthcare. An MSF surgical and medical team joined them on 9 May 2023, enabling the hospital to provide surgery alongside emergency medical care. In the first five weeks of working there, the emergency room saw more than 1,000 patients, over 900 of them with trauma-related injuries. For 20 months, MSF teams worked alongside volunteers and medical staff to provide healthcare to people trapped in violence and devastation in south Khartoum. During this time, we continuously saw desperately injured and ill patients flocking to the hospital, demonstrating the significant needs in this part of Khartoum. In August 2023, for example, MSF and the Bashair Teaching hospital team treated more than 200 people in two days in successive mass influxes of wounded after bombings nearby. When the maternity department reopened the following month, 40 babies were delivered in the first two weeks, including seven by caesarean section. Over the past two years, MSF has had to suspend activities several times. In 2023, a ban on the transport of surgical supplies to Khartoum forced a stop to all surgical activities – including caesarean sections and trauma care – for several months. In November and December 2024, violent incidents, including the killing of a patient in the hospital, led MSF to suspend temporarily. When armed men again entered the hospital in January 2025, MSF made the difficult decision to suspend all activity at the hospital. The situation in Khartoum is significantly calmer now but many hospitals and healthcare facilities have been damaged or closed because of the war and are not fully functional. In addition to restarting work in Bashair Teaching hospital, MSF is providing general healthcare through mobile clinics in central and south Khartoum, and we are preparing to restart other medical activities in various parts of the city and state. MSF also continues to support medical activities in Omdurman, at Al Buluk hospital and Al Nao hospitals, where we run a cholera treatment unit, in addition to other activities aiming to improve water and sanitation services in the area. 'The needs in Khartoum remain immense. The current cholera outbreak is only one of the challenges facing people still living in Khartoum or returning from other parts of the country,' says Claire San Filippo, MSF emergency coordinator for Sudan. 'Humanitarian assistance must be scaled up, access facilitated and medical care protected to ensure that all those who need it, in Khartoum and in the rest of Sudan, can access healthcare.' Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Médecins sans frontières (MSF).
