There has been a three-day mini-ceasefire between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces to allow civilians to flee.Exiled Sudanese activist Amir Suliman, of the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies, said the country's health sector was on its knees.
In their appeal letter, SDTU said that, by the end of last week, it had recorded more than 400 civilian deaths in hospitals around Khartoum. The bombardment of Al Bahara Hospital in Khartoum Bahri on 29 April further aggravated the situation.The doctors said four children had died at Al Saudi Hospital because of a shortage of oxygen.The hospitals had also run out of heparin injections, which is used in the treatment of heart ailments, as a blood thinner.