El Fasher , June 8(Darfur 24)
The United Nations Population Fund UNFPA expressed concerns that the obstetrics and gynecology hospital operating in the city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, would stop working due to the severe shortage of medicines.
Since May 10, there have been continuous battles between the army and its allied movements and the Rapid Support Forces and the militias supporting them in El Fasher, leaving more than a thousand civilians dead and wounded.
The Fund said, in a statement obtained by Darfur 24, that the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital in El Fasher, the only remaining hospital in the city that provides reproductive health services to women, suffers from a severe shortage of supplies and medicines, which threatens its continuity of work.
He called for the necessity of stopping the fighting in the city.
The Southern Hospital, which is the only operating hospital in El Fasher and capable of receiving critical cases, was subjected to repeated bombardment by the Rapid Support Forces. The Children’s Hospital was also damaged after a shell fell from an air strike near it, leading to its closure.
El Fasher suffers from a severe shortage of medicines, as a result of the siege imposed by the Rapid Support Forces on it, which prompted the Ministry of Health to drop 20 tons of medical supplies and life-saving supplies last week via military aircraft.