The Health Emergency Committee in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, revealed yesterday, Saturday, that 22,000 surgical operations were performed to extract gunshot wounds during the war that the country has been witnessing since April of last year.
The head of the committee, Mohamed Ibrahim, explained, in a joint statement issued by the Sovereignty Council and the Sudanese Ministry of Health, that the number of hospitals currently operating has reached 31 out of 54 hospitals, in addition to the operation of 158 health centers out of 243, noting that “more than 33 thousand wounded people have been treated.” And 22,000 free gunshot extraction operations were performed.
In October last year, the representative of the World Health Organization in Sudan, Nima Saeed Abed, said that the health system in Sudan had reached the breaking point, as a result of the great pressure on health facilities and the decrease in their absorptive capacity, while the organization indicated that the Sudanese were struggling to obtain life-saving care. Nearly 15 million people need urgent health assistance to survive.
In the same context, a study conducted by researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, last Wednesday, estimated the death of more than 61,000 people in Khartoum State during the period between April 2023 and June 2024, due to conflict, disease and famine, in addition to natural deaths.