The conflict portends major repercussions for the country’s health sector, amid warnings of paralysis of the health system due to the targeting of hospitals and medical centers, as well as lack of medicines and supplies.
Al-Tayeb says in statements to ‘Sky News Arabia’ that he needs 3 dialysis sessions a week at a medical center in Khartoum, and it takes about 4 hours per session, but the question is no longer so simple than in the past 5 years during which he used to get his sessions regularly Regular, explaining that the center had informed him of the lack of certain supplies and medications necessary for the sessions.
He added: “They have told us that they are working to respond quickly to these medical needs in the coming days, and we hope they will.”
Shortage of supplies
This was warned by the Preliminary Committee of the Sudanese Doctors Union, which pointed to the depletion of stocks in many dialysis centers, explaining that these centers are dedicated to conducting sessions for about 12,000 patients suffering from dialysis. chronic kidney failure, in addition to acute cases, with an average of 140,000 dialysis operations per month, which puts lives at stake. Most of them are at stake unless supplies arrive urgently in the centers.
The head of the Preliminary Committee of the Sudan Doctors Union, Heba Omar, has said in exclusive statements to ‘Sky News Arabia’ that the current situation in Sudan threatens to lose 12,000 kidney failure patients due to a lack of supplies and the inability to provide so far, adding: “Whoever does not die from bullets, will die from poor health services.
Omar elaborated on the details of the current health situation and its impact on patients with kidney failure, as well as those with chronic conditions, saying:
The health situation is on the verge of collapse, because every day a hospital is put out of service, whether because of the bombing of hospitals, or the lack of medical aid. People with chronic diseases are at very high risk, especially dialysis patients, because we have around 12,000 patients who are at risk of losing their lives, as well as cancer and diabetes patients. Organ transplant patients and those receiving immunosuppressants, their lives are also at grave risk, amid declining medical services and their vulnerability to ongoing events. We have a great shortage of medical oxygen, in addition to a shortage of cesarean section and intensive care needs, and the difficulty of the medical team to reach hospitals, paralyzing the movement of ambulances and putting obstacles in front transportation of the wounded and injured.
Hospital crisis
And the matter does not end there, as the head of the Sudanese Doctors Syndicate has indicated that there is a major gap in the basics of the functioning of the hospitals which are still in operation, with a lack of fuel necessary to make operate the generators, which affected the electric current in general, adding that “all these reasons make the situation so bad, and that is why we have appealed to the international community to resolve the conflict, secure the safe paths and provide the necessary supplies”.
And “Omar” pointed out in his statements to “Sky News Arabia”, that 68% of the hospitals adjacent to the areas of our confined clashes are suspended from service, out of 86 hospitals in the capital and the states, there are 59 hospitals which are suspended from service.
This was confirmed by the Sudanese Ministry of Health, which announced that 16 hospitals in Khartoum state were out of service, warning of a complete collapse of the public and private health sectors if the clashes continued.
According to a ministry report carried by the Sudanese News Agency (SUNA), since the outbreak of the clashes on April 15, until Tuesday April 25, 512 people were killed and 4,193 others were injured.
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