Sudan .. nurses in Khartoum rinking their lives for patients – the seventh day

Hygrochine health workers have recounted how they risked their lives for patients because of the war there

After the fighting erupted in the Sudanese capital in mid -April 2023, the Khartoum hospitals were exhausted, and the doctor, Safaa Ali, faced an impossible option: her family or her patients. She recounted how she could not sleep all night before she decided not to go with her husband to Egypt with her four children.

“I am with my children, or I stay and perform my professional duty,” she told AFP. She has not seen her family since then.

About two years after the outbreak of the war between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, it is one of the last remaining obstetricians in the capital risked their life to give Sudanese women an opportunity for safe birth.

“What drives us is our love for our country and our love for the profession that we do and the section we have we have.”

Safaa Ali .. One of the teams that includes doctors, nurses, technicians and cleaning workers in the last hospital that is still in Omdurman, the sister city of Khartoum on the other bank of the Nile River.

The operating rooms turned into battlefields, bombed hospitals and killed their colleagues in their whereabouts.

However, despite the bombs and bullets, the medical team comes and provides treatment for patients every day.

“The health workers were subjected to attack, kidnapping, killing and detention, hostages in exchange for a ransom,” said Dr. Khaled Abdel Salam, coordinator of the Khartoum project for MSF, said.

It was forced up to 90% of hospitals in conflict areas to close, according to the Sudanese Medical Syndicate, which says at least 78 health workers have been killed since the war began.

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