A third of those injured in the war in Sudan are women and children. This is reported by the aid organization Doctors Without Borders, which runs the country's few hospitals.
Women and children under the age of ten make up a third of the war-injured patients who come to Doctors Without Borders' hospitals in Sudan, reports AFP.
Tens of thousands of people have been killed – and many more injured – since the fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) broke out in April 2023.
Doctors Without Borders runs the only healthcare available in the country, which was already in a deep humanitarian crisis before the war broke out.
In July, the organization was forced to close a hospital in the capital Khartoum after staff were subjected to repeated threats.
11 million people have been displaced since the outbreak of the war and more than half of the population – 25 million people – are in need of acute humanitarian aid.
The UN warns that as many as 220,000 children are at risk of dying from starvation in the coming months.
