UNICEF: Insecurity prevents Sudan children accessing health services

“Insecurity. Flooding. Inaccessible roads” are hindering access to health services in Sudan, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a post on social media yesterday.

The organisation also posted photos showing infants being examined in a health centre supported by UNICEF in Sudan, showing how many are now undernourished.

 

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There are growing international and UN calls to end the war to spare Sudan a humanitarian catastrophe that has begun to push millions to famine and death due to food shortages as a result of the fighting that has spread to 13 of the country’s 18 states.

Since mid-April 2023, the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been at war. More than 20,000 people have been killed as a result and more than 14 million displaced or made refugees, according to estimates by the UN and local authorities. Research by American universities confirms that the total number of deaths is much higher, reaching about 130,000 people killed directly and indirectly.

Read: Famine in war-torn Sudan is spreading, global monitor warns