Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is suspending life-saving surgical activities at Bashair Teaching Hospital in southern Khartoum. MSF is at least temporarily withdrawing its surgical team, but is continuing to support maternal, emergency, and outpatient care. Since September 8, military authorities have refused permission for MSF to bring new surgical supplies from its warehouses in Wad Madani.
KHARTOUM OCTOBER 19: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is suspending life-saving surgical activities at Bashair Teaching Hospital in southern Khartoum. Including trauma surgery and Cesarean sections, after military authorities caused surgical supplies to run out by blocking their delivery from Wad Madani for over a month.
MSF is at least temporarily withdrawing its surgical team, but is continuing to support maternal, emergency, and outpatient care at Bashair Teaching Hospital. MSF also continues to provide and support medical care at three other major hospitals in Khartoum and Omdurman for now.
MSF started working alongside Ministry of Health staff and volunteers at Bashair Teaching Hospital in mid-May. Since September 8, military authorities have refused permission for MSF to bring new surgical supplies from its warehouses in Wad Madani.
– “After weeks of discussions, on October 1, we were informed that the military authorities in Wad Madani will no longer allow the transport of any surgical supplies, including for C-sections, to hospitals in southern Khartoum,” said Michiel Hofman.
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