The WHO chief has urged a halt on attacks against healthcare facilities in Sudan after a devastating drone strike on a hospital in North Darfur killed over 70 people. The ongoing conflict between Sudan's army and RSF is causing widespread humanitarian crises and ethnic violence in the region.
The head of the World Health Organization called on Saturday for an end to attacks on health care workers and facilities in Sudan after a drone attack on a hospital in Sudan's North Darfur region killed more than 70 people and wounded dozens.
At least one girl and three boys were killed, and three boys injured, during an attack on the Saudi Hospital in the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher, North Darfur, on Friday.
Geneva: Director-General of World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, today called for an immediate halt to attacks on healthcare facilities and personnel in Sudan, following a drone strike on "Saudi Hospital" in Al-Fasher, North Darfur, that killed more than 70 people and injured dozens.
In a devastating assault, at least 70 people were killed and 19 others injured in an attack on the only functional hospital in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan's North Darfur province. The
Seventy patients and companions died in a drone strike on one of the last functioning hospitals in western Sudan's Darfur, the region's governor said.
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Some 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, the chief of the World Health Organisation said Sunday, part of a series of attacks coming as the African nation's civil war escalated in recent days.
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