The Emergency Room in Jebel Awlia, an impoverished district in southern Khartoum state, has announced the evacuation of patients and elderly individuals who require medical care to any safe location outside Khartoum State for treatment.
The evacuation is occasioned by the lack of hospitals and medication within Khartoum State.
A member of the Jebel Awlia Emergency Room Liaison Office, Mutaz Al-Ejeel, told Radio Tamazuj: “There are medical cases and elderly individuals who need to receive treatment and healthcare outside Khartoum in safe areas.”
He noted that the emergency room had undertaken the costs of transportation from Jebel Awlia to any safe location outside Khartoum State for treatment, in addition to contributing to the treatment costs for urgent cases.
Jebel Awlia is located approximately 40km south of Khartoum, along the White Nile. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have controlled the area since the early months of the conflict, with electricity, water, communication networks, and internet services being cut off for more than three months.
Unless the fighting stops soon, Sudan could be hit by a devastating famine affecting millions of people, United Nations officials warn. But there is little prospect of the conflict ending any time soon.
The war has already reordered the country with breathtaking speed. The capital, Khartoum, has been transformed into a charred battleground of bullet-scarred buildings and bodies buried in shallow graves.
Dozens of hospitals and clinics have been shuttered, aid workers say.
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