The World Health Organization’s Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has denounced a series of airstrikes in Sudan’s South Kordofan State that killed 114 people, including 63 children.
The attacks which were launched by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), happened on December 4 and hit a kindergarten and the nearby Kalogi Rural Hospital, according to the WHO’s Attacks on Health Care monitoring system. Another 35 people were injured.
WHO boss said the Kalogi hospital was struck at least three times. Survivors were later moved to Abu Jebaiha Hospital for treatment, where medical teams urgently called for blood donations and more supplies.
Tedros also highlighted reports that paramedics and first responders were attacked as they tried to move injured children from the kindergarten to the hospital.
Tedros condemned the strikes as “senseless attacks on civilians and health facilities” and renewed his appeal for a halt to the conflict.
He urged all sides to guarantee humanitarian access and allow lifesaving medical aid into affected areas. “Sudanese have suffered far too much. Ceasefire now,” he said.
