KHARTOUM: At a freshly renovated hospital in Khartoum, the medical team is beaming: Nearly three years after it was wrecked and looted in the early days of Sudan’s war, the facility has welcomed its first patients.
The Bahri Teaching Hospital in the capital’s north was stormed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in April 2023, soon after fighting broke out between the RSF and Sudan’s army.
Bahri remained a war zone until an army counteroffensive pushed through Khartoum last year, recapturing the area from the RSF in March.
Around 40 of Khartoum’s 120 hospitals, shut during the war, have resumed operations, according to the Sudan Doctors’ Network, a local medical group.
“We never thought the hospital would reopen,” said Dr. Ali Mohammed Ali, delighted to be back in his old surgical ward.
