“One of our neighbours used to be a nurse. She helped us stop the bleeding,“ Mohamed’s father, Issa Said, 27, told AFP via satellite connection under a total communications blackout.
Like an estimated one million more people trapped in the city under a year-long siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Said cannot get to a hospital for emergency care.
In its quest to seize the North Darfur state capital -- the only major Darfur city it has not conquered during two years of war with Sudan's army -- the RSF has launched attack after attack, which have been repelled by army and allied forces.
Humanitarian operations in El-Fasher have been severely disrupted due to “access constraints, a critical fuel shortage and a volatile security environment,“ with health services particularly affected, the United Nations’ humanitarian agency OCHA said.
Mohamed, an aid coordinator who fled to El-Fasher after getting shot in the thigh during an RSF attack days ago on the nearby famine-hit Zamzam displacement camp, estimates hundreds of injured civilians are trapped in the city.
Yet the people of El-Fasher have “opened their homes to the wounded,“ Mohamed told AFP, requesting to be identified by his first name for safety.
In crowded living rooms and kitchens, civilians with barely any medical training cobble together emergency first aid, using household items and local medicinal plants to treat burns, gunshot wounds and shrapnel injuries.
The limb immediately broke underneath him, and a neighbour dragged him into his home, fashioning him a splint out of a few pieces of wood and cloth.
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At least 825,000 children are trapped in “hell on Earth” in the city and its environs, the UN children’s agency UNICEF has warned.
Residents have taken to hiding from the shelling in makeshift bunkers, which are often just hastily dug holes topped with bags of sand.
On Wednesday, a shell broke through Hanaa Hamad's home, shrapnel tearing apart her husband's abdomen before they could scramble to safety.
But by morning, he had succumbed to his injuries, too severe for his wife and neighbour to handle.
The medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Friday called for aid airdrops.
“If the roads to El-Fasher are blocked, then air operations must be launched to bring food and medicines to the estimated one million people trapped there and being starved,“ head of mission Rasmane Kabore said.
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