Two years ago this week, a conflict broke out in Sudan that few anticipated would intensify so fast or persist for SO lung. What is a fight of violent power has become one of the humanitarian crises of sausages and more careless of our time.
The country has immersed itself in a state of devastation marked by mass displacement, hunger, violence and disease.
The numbers are amazing. More than 30 million people need humanitarian aid. At least 15 million people are currently displaced. About 11.3 million are displaced within Sudan and 3.9 million people have fled to neighboring countries, which makes this the largest displacement crisis in the world. More than 20 million people urgently need access to medical care.
Behind these numbers there are millions of individual stories. Parents fear for the life of their child suffering from severe malnutrition. Families stranded in areas without food, safe water or medical care. Women, men and children who die because it is too dangerous to go to a health center. A whole generation of children who lose routine vaccines.
When I visited Sudan last September, with Saueda, a brilliant nine -year -old girl who fled from her hometown and lived in a travel camp in Port Sudan, where the World Health Organization (WHO) supports primary medical care services. He left everything he knew and told me that he had bone to school in two years.
In Port Sudan, who spoke with Ashwa and his youngest son, who was treated for severe acute malnutrition in one of the WHO stabilization centers that operated there. “When my baby stopped any food or drink, and stopped moving, with swelling in his arms, I knew that his life was in serious danger,” he said, while holding his son. “I feared I lost it until we arrive at this hospital where you are receiving special milk and medications. Now it can move, the breastfeeding resumed and may smile.
However, very few of these stories come to the headlines. This silence is dangerous. Reduce indifference and cost more lives.
The war has left the Health System of devastated Sudan, especially in areas difficult to achieve. In the states evaluated, 62 percent of the health centers are functional and 32 percent soaking is not functional, with a lack of clarity of other areas difficult to achieve such as Darfurs and Kordofans. Patients cannot access basic treatments due to continuous struggle and repeated attacks against health centers and health workers.
Two thirds of all states in Sudan are experiencing more than three outbreaks of different diseases, including cholera, measles, malaria, dengue and diphtheria. Cholera has only killed at least 1,500 people.
Malnutrition extends between children, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers. The famine has been confirmed in five areas and is projected to expand to 17, with tens of thousands of lives with immediate risk.
With our partners, who are in Sudan, they work to ensure that people can access the required attention. Despite severely restricted access to needy people and in health centers, we offer medical supplies that save life, support hospitals and health centers, and perform vaccination campaigns.
Since the conflict began, with the support of WHO, approximately one million patients have received treatment in hospitals, health centers and mobile clinics. About 11.5 million children have been vaccinated against polio and measles, and 12.8 million people have received cholera vaccines. WHO supports stabilization centers, where the duration in the last two years, 75,000 children who suffer from severe acute malnutrition with medical complications have received treatment.
The response of another to this crisis has been possible thanks to the generous taxpayers such as the Central Emergency Response Fund, the International Cooperation Agency of Japan, the Center for Help and Humanitarian Aid of King Salman, Europe, France, France, France, France, France, France, France, France, France, France, France, France, France, France, France, France, France, France, France, France, France. However, continuous support is fundamental in 2025 for the $ 135 million response plan of $ 135 million, 79 percent or is not financed.
Who is determined to continually support the people of Sudan, but we need access and protection of civilians, humanitarian and medical staff. Since the conflict began, who has verified 156 attacks against health centers, ambulances, personnel and patients, resulting in 318 deaths and 273 injuries. Health and facilities workers should never be objective. In fact, they are protected by international humanitarian law. But it has a bone flagrant contempt for the thesis Bligations.
The Sudan crisis is no longer a national tragedy, it has become a regional threat. The Threeatens conflict to destabilize neighboring countries and runs the risk of feeding greater displacement, disease and insecurity.
A week after my mission to Sudan, I was in Chad, which houses more than 750,000 Sudanese. I with families who had walked for days to cross the border in search of security. Some said their houses had burned their legs, destroyed crops and animals. They left and arrived with nothing. When I asked what the most needed, the horrible answer I heard again and again was: “Food. We are hungry.”
We can say that we don’t know what is happening. The facts are clear and the stories are heartbreaking. What is missing is more action. We need sustained humanitarian access and without obstacles to reach those in the greatest need, adequate funds to provide help to save lives and, above all, a high -level commitment to finish the war.
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