The World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus condemned the recent attack on the Saudi Teaching Maternal Hospital in El Fasher, Sudan, which resulted in 70 deaths and 19 injuries.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday announced the first confirmed death from Sudan virus disease (same family as Ebola Virus) in Uganda involving a 32-year-old nurse. According to its statement WHO has allocated one million dollars from its Contingency Fund for Emergencies to help accelerate early action following the declaration of the outbreak by Ugandan authorities.
The African country is gripped by a civil war between the army and rebel forces. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced more than 12 million.
Following the attack on Saudi Teaching Maternal Hospital in El Fasher, Sudan, which resulted in 70 deaths and 19 injuries, UNICEF on Tuesday said that at least one girl and three boys were reportedly killed and three boys injured.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei condemned the attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan.
Türkiye on Sunday strongly condemned an attack by the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a Saudi hospital in Sudan, emphasizing that
Geneva: Director-General of World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, today called for an immediate halt to attacks on healthcare facilities and personnel in Sudan, following a drone strike on "Saudi Hospital" in Al-Fasher, North Darfur, that killed more than 70 people and injured dozens.
Drone attack on hospital in Sudan’s Darfur kills at least 70, says WHO chief - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says it was ‘the only functional hospital in El Fasher’
Reported attack follows RSF warning In the Saudi hospital attack in El Fasher, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom ... Sudan’s people need peace. The best medicine is peace.” Ghebreyesus ...
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, was accused in 2017 of downplaying cholera epidemics that hit Ethiopia and Sudan. A group of American doctors ...
Attacks on health workers and facilities in Sudan must stop, the World Health Organization says, after 70 people were killed in a drone strike on a hospital.