Wounded Sudanese refugees, many injured in fighting between Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), are pouring into hospitals in eastern Chad, where overstretched medical staff say they lack the resources to treat both the physical and psychological toll of the nearly three-year war.
Medical staff treated refugee Mahamat Hamid Abakar for a serious head wound from a drone attack using bandages and compresses outside Tine hospital in eastern Chad.
The 33-year-old, who fled his native Sudan as war erupted nearly three years ago, had just had a 5-millimeter metal fragment removed from his skull.
Most of the wounded crossing the border are victims of drones, which have been widely deployed in strikes by both sides in the conflict.
Sitting in the back of a pick-up truck, Abakar was traveling at night to deliver flour and sugar from Chad to his family, who have stayed in Sudan.
