As explosions, heavy gunfire and air strikes continue to rock Sudan, hospitals are shut down, preventing health care professionals from providing care
According to the doctors' union, 13 hospitals nationwide have been shelled and 19 others evacuated since the fighting began.
"Because of the intense fighting, the person could not be moved and buried," Mohamed's father, Mohamed Ibrahim, 62, told AFP news agency. As Ibrahim waited with his son in the hospital ward under ceaseless blasts, "the stench filled the room", the father said, made worse by power outages in the baking heat.Diplomatic exodus underway in Sudan as rival generals continue fightingAt around 1:00 pm on Tuesday, after three days with no food, water or electricity, the father and son finally left, but not to safety.
Ibrahim managed to shield his sick son from the crossfire, but "had to go on foot" through the streets, dashing from one safe point to another. According to Abdullah, even hospitals that have remained open, receiving mostly gunshot wounds, "are at risk of closure at any time". Medics have made daily appeals for a ceasefire to allow humanitarian access to move through, transport the wounded and bury the dead.
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