From IRIN, a story about the armed conflict that continues in Sudan between the Northern government and a opposition party.
Kurmuk hospital in Sudan’s southern crisis-hit Blue Nile State is struggling to cope with an influx of war wounded, according to hospital doctor Evan Atar.
So far he has treated 626 people for shrapnel injuries since clashes began last month between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) opposition political party-turned-rebel group.
A man on the operating table cries out in pain, but Atar says the hospital has no more anaesthetics to give him.
Cotton, gauze and saline solution will run out this week if aid does not arrive, he says, adding that six months of supplies have been used up in the past six weeks.
“We are running short of everything – drugs, dressings.” He feared the hospital would have to buy salt, boil it, and use it to sterilize wounds.
“The problem is that there is no way we can get the drugs in here now because of the Antonovs bombing the area, making it very dangerous to fly supplies in from Kenya.”
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir will not allow foreign aid agencies inside Blue Nile or the neighbouring state of South Kordofan, where the government has been fighting SPLM-N forces for months.
The only doctor in Kumruk
Atar is the only doctor in Kurmuk, which has the only hospital between state capital Damazin (under SAF control), and neighbouring Ethiopia.
Nurse Walid Solomon says 20-year-old soldier Satdam Anima is the seventh amputee victim the hospital has dealt with.
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