Khartoum, May 6(Darfur24) Senior official at the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) revealed on Friday that more than a million polio vaccines have been lost, in the midst of the ongoing armed clashes in Sudan.
This came in press statements made by Hazel de Witt, Deputy Director of UNICEF’s Office of Emergency Programs, according to the “United Nations News” website.
She said that “more than a million polio vaccines have been lost in South Darfur, in the context of looting, damage and destruction of some supply chains,” as one of the damages resulting from the fighting between the conflicting parties.
Since last April 15, states in Sudan have witnessed large-scale clashes between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, in which the two sides exchange accusations of being responsible for the outbreak, after forces affiliated with each went to control centers belonging to the other.
The clashes caused many hospitals to be out of service, and many other services, including communications and electricity, were disrupted.
The fighting claimed the lives of 550 people, including 473 civilians, and injured several thousand people, in addition to the flight of tens of thousands of people from the areas of clashes, according to the United Nations, the Sudanese authorities and the Sudan Doctors Committee.