Shafaq News/ A cholera outbreak has killed at least 70 people inSudan’s capital over the past two days, overwhelming Khartoum’s deterioratinghealth system, local authorities reported on Friday.
The Sudanese Health Ministry recorded 942 new infections and 25deaths on Thursday, following 1,177 cases and 45 fatalities the previous day.This sharp increase came weeks after intensive drone strikes attributed to theRapid Support Forces (RSF), disrupting water and electricity supplies acrossthe capital.
Fighting between the army and the RSF has devastated Khartoum overthe past two years. Last week, the army-backed government announced that it hadcleared RSF forces from their final positions in Khartoum. Despite theseadvances, large parts of the health and sanitation infrastructure remain inruins.
The country’s doctors’ union indicated that nearly 90 percent ofhospitals nationwide have closed at various stages of the conflict. Manyfacilities have also been damaged by shelling, looted, or occupied by armedgroups.
The cholera outbreak has placed additional strain on an alreadycollapsing system. Authorities cited an 89 percent recovery rate in isolationcentres, warning that worsening environmental conditions continue to pushinfection numbers higher.
A Near collapse
Since August 2024, Sudan has registered more than 65,000 suspectedcholera cases and over 1,700 deaths across 12 of the country’s 18 states. InKhartoum alone, more than 7,700 infections and 185 deaths have beenrecorded—over 1,000 of them children under five.
The United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF, estimates that morethan one million children remain at risk in cholera-affected areas of thecapital.
“We are racing against time … to provide basic healthcare, cleanwater and good nutrition,” noted UNICEF’s representative in Sudan, SheldonYett. “Each day, more children are exposed to this double threat of cholera andmalnutrition.”
Now entering its third year, the war has killed tens of thousands,displaced 13 million people, and triggered what aid agencies describe as theworld’s largest displacement and hunger crisis.
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