GENEVA: The death toll from a strike on a hospital in East Darfur has risen from 64 to 70, the WHO said Tuesday, calling the hit an attack on survival in Sudan’s devastating war.
The World Health Organization said the number of people injured in Friday’s strike on the El-Daein Teaching Hospital in the state capital of East Darfur had also increased from 89 to 146, with the facility now out of action.
Hala Khudari, the deputy WHO representative in Sudan and the UN agency’s health emergency lead in the country, called it an “atrocious attack.”
She said the death toll included seven women and 13 children, one doctor and two nurses, while those injured included patients, their family members and eight health workers.
“The hospital sustained severe damage, particularly to the outpatient and emergency departments,” she told a press briefing in Geneva, speaking from Port Sudan.
