Showing posts with label Turkish hospital. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Turkish hospital. Show all posts

Sunday, July 21, 2024

Sudan: Conflict in Khartoum (Tuti Island), Khartoum

From DTM Sudan Flash Alert
Dated Sunday, 21 July 2024 - Update Five:

Conflict in Khartoum (Tuti Island), Khartoum


DTM Sudan received preliminary information that approximately 130 households reportedly left Tuti Island of Khartoum locality, in Khartoum state on 19 July 2024 due to increased security concerns. 


According to field teams, displaced households sought shelter primarily across locations within Karrari locality, Khartoum. 

The situation remains tense and unpredictable. The latest DTM Sudan report is available here.


Source: VIEW IN BROWSER

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Sudan Watch - 17 July 2024

Omdurman 11 miles from Khartoum is 'uninhabitable' amid its sanitary crisis and a total service collapse

The Ombadda El Amir Emergency Room said that the Ombadda Block 5 neighbourhood in Omdurman, sister city to the capital Khartoum, is currently uninhabitable due to the presence of decomposing corpses in streets and in homes a complete lack of services. … the Emergency Room indicated that there are no remaining functional markets, hospitals, or medical centres in Ombadda Block 5. Charity kitchens and hospices have also been relocated to Ombadda Block 2.

https://sudanwatch.blogspot.com/2024/07/omdurman-11-miles-from-khartoum-is.html

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Sudan Watch - 12 July 2024

Sudan's police order all foreigners to leave Khartoum & surrounding region. MSF evacuates Khartoum team

Khartoum, Jul. 12, (dpa/GNA) – Sudanese security authorities have ordered all foreigners to leave the capital Khartoum and the surrounding region.

https://sudanwatch.blogspot.com/2024/07/sudans-police-order-all-foreigners-to.html

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Sudan News Agency (SUNA) - 11 July 2024

Khartoum State's Director of Aliens Administration announces foreigners to leave Khartoum State within 15 days

The Director of the Administration of Foreigners and Migration Control in Khartoum State, Colonel Nizar Khalil, issued an announcement Thursday to all foreigners to leave Khartoum State within 15 days for preservation of their lives during the war period. The announcement based on the decision of the Khartoum State Security Affairs Coordination Committee. BH/BH

https://www.suna-sd.net/posts/Khartoum-State%27s-Director-of-Aliens-Administration-announces-foreigners-to-leave-Khartoum-State-within-15-days

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Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)  - 10 July 2024

Sudan: Violence forces MSF to evacuate Khartoum hospital

After over a year of violent incidents both inside and outside Khartoum's Turkish Hospital – including threats made against the lives of our staff – Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is evacuating its team from the hospital.

https://msf.org.uk/article/sudan-violence-forces-msf-evacuate-khartoum-hospital

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Friday, July 12, 2024

Sudan's police order all foreigners to leave Khartoum & surrounding region. MSF evacuates Khartoum team

Report from Ghana News Agency
Dated Friday, 12 July 2024. Here is a copy, in full:

Sudanese police order all foreigners to leave Khartoum

Khartoum, Jul. 12, (dpa/GNA) – Sudanese security authorities have ordered all foreigners to leave the capital Khartoum and the surrounding region.


They have two weeks to do so, according to a statement from the section of the police dealing with foreigners.


Foreigners should leave for their own safety amid the fighting still raging between government troops and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia, the police said.


According to media reports, hostility towards foreigners, especially those from other African countries, has been on the rise following reports of foreign mercenaries in the RSF ranks.


Just a few days ago, more than 150 foreigners who did not have valid residence papers were detained.


A bloody power struggle has been raging in Sudan for more than a year between de facto ruler Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohammed Hamdan Daglo.


According to the UN, the conflict has caused almost 10 million people to flee their homes, and risks a famine in the country.


International aid organization staff and diplomats still in the country left Khartoum after the outbreak of fighting and are now working from Port Sudan, where the situation is comparatively stable.


Source: https://gna.org.gh/2024/07/sudanese-police-order-all-foreigners-to-leave-khartoum/

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Dabanga Online English - Friday, 12 July 2024

MSF Sudan evacuates ‘exhausted’ Khartoum team

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF/Doctors Without Borders) announced the evacuation of its team from the Turkish hospital in Khartoum, due to ongoing violence both inside and outside the facility. The decision follows numerous threats to the lives of MSF staff. … The Turkish hospital will remain open with Ministry of Health staff, but surgeries will not be possible without the evacuated MSF staff, casting uncertainty on the hospital’s future.

https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/msf-sudan-evacuates-exhausted-khartoum-team

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https://x.com/RadioTamazuj/status/1811317249073934483 

Full story: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/sudan-violence-forces-msf-evacuate-team-turkish-hospital-khartoum

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https://x.com/RadioTamazuj/status/1811739285395308593 

Full story: https://www.radiotamazuj.org/en/news/article/khartoum-community-kitchen-shut-after-support-runs-out

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Sudan Tribune - Thursday, 11 July 2024

Khartoum State orders foreign nationals to leave

The army controls the Karari locality and some neighbourhoods of old Omdurman, while Khartoum and Khartoum Bahri are under the control of the RSF, except for the headquarters and bases of the armed forces.



https://sudantribune.com/article288124/

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Sudan: 3.9M people food insecure in Khartoum state. Khartoum's partly a ghost town, only 20-30% remain

IN some areas of Khartoum you can see ordinary scenes of life, such as children playing outside and parents going to the market. But the atmosphere remains very tense and extremely anxiety-provoking, even post-apocalyptic. Many buildings have been gutted and looted. There are large numbers of RSF fighters roaming the streets and regularly forming checkpoints. Read more.  


From MSF website 

(Médecins Sans Frontières aka Doctors Without Borders) 

Dated Tuesday, 12 March 2024 - here is a copy in full:


SUDAN: "THE SITUATION REMAINS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT"


The city of Khartoum has been the epicentre of the war in Sudan for many months. While part of the city is now experiencing some respite, the situation remains extremely difficult and precarious for the civilian population who continue to live there. 


We take a look at the situation with Jean-Guy Vataux, who recently returned from Sudan, where he was Head of Mission for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Khartoum.   

Patients at an MSF clinic in Zamzam camp, currently hosting more than 300,000 internally displaced people. A rapid nutrition and mortality assessment carried out by MSF in Zamzam camp in January 2024 reveals a deadly situation that has unfolded over the past nine months. 

© Mohamed Zakaria


AFTER SEVERAL MONTHS UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE RAPID SUPPORT FORCES (RSF), WHAT IS THE STATE OF THE SUDANESE CAPITAL?  

Khartoum is partly a ghost town. Around 20 to 30 per cent of its population remains. The inhabitants fled en masse. However, some returned after the RSF took control of neighbouring Al Jazirah state in December. As a result, in some areas you can see ordinary scenes of life, such as children playing outside and parents going to the market. But the atmosphere remains very tense and extremely anxiety-provoking, even post-apocalyptic. Many buildings have been gutted and looted. There are large numbers of RSF fighters roaming the streets and regularly forming checkpoints.  


So Khartoum remains a city at war. The RSF attacks the government enclaves with artillery on a regular basis, while the Sudanese Armed Forces respond with aerial bombardments. There is still an atmosphere of active war and a very strong fear of both parties to the conflict among the population. For example, some of the staff working at the Turkish Hospital supported by MSF never go outside, not even to run an errand in front of the hospital.  


WHAT ARE THE LIVING CONDITIONS LIKE FOR THE CIVILIANS WHO HAVE REMAINED IN KHARTOUM? 

Since the RSF took control of neighbouring Al Jazirah state, the markets in Khartoum have become better supplied with food, particularly fruit and vegetables. But the situation remains extremely difficult for the inhabitants and will likely continue to deteriorate. There is a major economic crisis in Sudan. 


And not just since the start of the war. For the last five years, the economy has been shrinking and today it's very hard to earn a living in Khartoum. It's an economy that is heavily affected by looting, and eventually there will be nothing left to loot.   


The overall indicators calculated by the United Nations teams for Khartoum state are extremely worrying. Even though we have not been able to verify these through our work, they show that 3.9 million people face high levels of food insecurity in Khartoum state. 


There is also the risk of an epidemic, which could lead to high mortality rates among a population that is particularly vulnerable in terms of nutrition. For the time being, Khartoum has been relatively spared, probably because of the low population density due to the mass departure of inhabitants. The cholera epidemic, which developed mainly in the towns of eastern Sudan, has affected the capital, but at very low rates. Similarly, there have been a few cases of measles, but here too the outbreak has remained extremely limited. Khartoum has not seen any outbreaks of dengue fever either, although there have been major outbreaks in other Sudanese cities. But there is no guarantee that Khartoum will remain unaffected by future epidemic outbreaks. 


HOW DOES THE POPULATION ACCESS HEALTHCARE?  

There are a few hospitals financed and run by the RSF, which do a bit of medical work in the city, but these are mainly for their fighters. A highly specialised cardiac surgery programme, set up by an international NGO, also continues to operate, but it does not meet the needs of a population in a city at war. This leaves only the four hospitals and a primary health care centre supported by MSF.


Even if Khartoum has achieved a degree of stability in terms of security, going to a hospital still represents a major risk. So people delay coming for as long as possible and think twice before crossing the city. The only people who continue to come quickly are those who have suffered trauma, whether from acts of war or accidents.  


At the Turkish Hospital, we saw people taking great risks to come and get the treatment they needed, like crossing the Nile by boat when there were bombings and snipers everywhere.  


HOW DOES THE TURKISH HOSPITAL, WHERE YOU WERE BASED IN KHARTOUM, CONTINUE TO FUNCTION? 

The Turkish Hospital is one of the few hospitals where the staff stayed after the war broke out. Today, the teams from the Ministry of Health tell us that if MSF hadn't come to support the hospital, whether by supplying medicines or paying salaries, they would have left the city—and therefore their posts—very quickly. 


The hospital was in a government zone when MSF began its collaboration. It then came under the control of the RSF when they took over the whole of the south of the town, including the hospital area. Despite this, the hospital was relatively spared from the fighting and bombing.   


Since then, activity in the emergency room has been fairly constant, with around a hundred visits a day, mainly for non-war related surgeries, obstetrics and road accidents. From time to time, war surgery is also necessary. During offensives or bombardments, we can treat up to 60 war casualties a day. For the rest of the facility, it is standard hospital activity, with a paediatric ward, a maternity unit, an internal medicine ward and a small outpatient department.  


WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF THE WAR ON HEALTH STAFF? 

The staff who work in the Turkish Hospital are under immense pressure. On the one hand, they are under pressure from the RSF, who are carrying out arbitrary arrests and brutal detentions of the civilian population, including Ministry of Health employees. As Ministry of Health staff are civil servants, the Rapid Support Forces consider that they may be spies in the pay of the Sudanese Armed Forces.  


On the government side, they also face growing suspicion. As the war goes on and civil servants carry out their work in RSF-controlled areas, the government's view of them is that they are now part of the RSF. There have been reports of incidents where civil servants have been arrested and ill-treated at Sudanese Armed Forces checkpoints on their way back to government zones, for example. So they're really between a rock and a hard place. But obviously, the fear is that the pressure will become too great and they will decide to flee abroad or to elsewhere in Sudan. 


HOW IS THE HOSPITAL SUPPLIED WITH EQUIPMENT AND MEDICINES?  

As with the other health structures supported by MSF, we have had problems at the Turkish Hospital since October when the government decided to blockade the city of Khartoum. At that point, it was no longer possible to transport medical equipment and medicines to RSF-controlled areas from Port Sudan, where the cargo ships arrive.   


So there was a serious shortage for a few weeks, until the RSF took control of Al Jazirah state and in particular the town of Wad Madani where our supplies were stored. From the moment it was taken over by the RSF, we were able to go there and bring most of the medical stocks to Khartoum.  


That said, in two months' time, the shortage problem will arise again.  We probably still won't be able to get the stocks and staff reinforcements through from Port Sudan, which remains under government control. We don't foresee that the government will change its policy. We are therefore in the process of trying to build a supply corridor from Chad.


3.9 million people face high levels of food insecurity in Khartoum state.
-Jean-Guy Vataux, MSF Head of Mission in Khartoum


...some of the staff working at the Turkish Hospital supported by MSF never go outside, not even to run an errand in front of the hospital. 

-Jean-Guy Vataux, MSF Head of Mission in Khartoum


View original: https://msf.org.au/article/project-news/sudan-situation-remains-extremely-difficult

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Sudan Watch - March 08, 2024

UNSC adopts Resolution 2724 (2024) calling for cessation of hostilities in Sudan during Ramadan

THE UN Security Council on Friday (Mar 8) adopted a key resolution on Sudan, calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities in the war torn country during the month of Ramadan, which begins on Sunday. There were 14 votes in favour, 0 against, one abstention (Russia).

https://sudanwatch.blogspot.com/2024/03/unsc-adopts-resolution-2724-2024.html

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Sudan Watch - March 11, 2024

VIDEO news report from Khartoum, Sudan on the first day of Ramadan shows no cessation of hostilities

Mr AlMigdad Hassan, correspondent for AlArabiya News Channel has filed his video report direct from Khartoum, Sudan to his X account on the first day of Ramadan, March 11th. Sadly, the footage in his report copied below shows that the cessation of hostilities by the belligerents hasn't happened.

https://sudanwatch.blogspot.com/2024/03/sudan-video-news-report-from-khartoum.html

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Sudan Watch - March 12, 2024

Sudan: Khartoum is still in total blackout, desperate need for humanitarian aid, basic essentials, electricity

Here is a message I received from a reader in Khartoum, Sudan last Sunday (Mar 10). Sadly, in short it says, Khartoum is still in total blackout, some neighbourhoods have had no electricity and water for over ten months, there is a desperate need for humanitarian aid.

https://sudanwatch.blogspot.com/2024/03/sudan-khartoum-is-still-in-total.html

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Sudan Watch - March 02, 2024

Sudan: In Zamzam camp, North Darfur, the death rate is catastrophic. At least 1 child dies every 2 hours

Malnutrition and disease are rife at the ‘overwhelmed’ Zamzam camp, a host to 300,000 internally displaced people, one of hundreds in Sudan, where war has displaced nearly 8 million people. The scale is simply terrifying. Zamzam is just one camp. There are hundreds of others in Sudan. 

https://sudanwatch.blogspot.com/2024/03/sudan-in-zamzam-camp-north-darfur-death.html

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