A new spate of tragic attacks on health across #Sudan has resulted in the deaths of health workers, assaults on health personnel and patients, looting of hospitals and damage by air strikes to vital health facilities.
On 2 April, a drone strike on White Nile State's Al-Jabalain Teaching Hospital killed 10 health care workers and injured 22 people.
A day earlier in White Nile, another strike on the central medical warehouse in the city of Rabak seriously injured three people, including a pharmacist and two warehouse workers, with unexploded ordnance found inside the facility.
On 2 April, the Family Hospital in East Darfur’s capital, Al-Daein, was looted, with patients and health workers assaulted and expelled from the facility. This hospital was blocks away from the Al-Daein Teaching Hospital that was recently destroyed in a strike, killing at least 70 people, including patients and health workers.
In a similar incident, a hospital in the Blue Nile State city of Al-Kurmuk was looted on 25 March, with equipment destroyed and staff and patients forced from the facility. A health worker was critically injured.
The continued attacks on health care facilities, health workers and patients who depend on them are unacceptable. This worrying pattern reveals a level of disregard for human life that no responsible actor can tolerate.
Health is #NotATarget.