A UN World Health Organisation official said that Sudan’s troubled health sector faced the risk of “disaster” after more than two weeks of heavy fighting. Even before conflict broke out on April 15, “the healthcare system in Sudan faced numerous crises … and was extremely fragile,” Ahmed Al Mandhari, WHO regional director for the eastern Mediterranean, stated. “It is a disaster in every sense of the word”, he said, warning of the growing threat of cholera, malaria, and other diseases.
