{"id":32222,"date":"2024-09-09T04:53:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T01:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=32222"},"modified":"2024-09-09T04:53:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T01:53:52","slug":"who-the-health-situation-in-sudan-has-collapsed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/09\/who-the-health-situation-in-sudan-has-collapsed\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO: The health situation in Sudan has collapsed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Follow-up<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">On Sunday, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom, confirmed the collapse of the health situation in Sudan.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Tedros stated during a press conference that the deteriorating health system in Sudan has reached a stage of complete collapse, with 70-80% of healthcare institutions and facilities no longer functioning.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He revealed that WHO has documented over 100 attacks on healthcare workers and humanitarian staff, and reported that the death toll of the Sudan war has exceeded 20,000.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said his visit to Sudan aims to call for urgent action to mobilize support and resources to address the humanitarian crisis, stressing that 14.7 million people need assistance, costing $2.7 billion, of which less than half has been secured to confront the \u201cbitter nightmare.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Tedros emphasized the need for Sudan to increase its capacity to combat diseases, expand vaccination coverage, and gain more support from the international community, alongside activating response and investigation teams to fight epidemics.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He added: &#8220;The international community must recognize the magnitude of the catastrophe in Sudan and the health system&#8217;s collapse, alongside the largest wave of displacement worldwide. I visited a children\u2019s hospital where I found them suffering from severe malnutrition due to the lack of essential medicines and healthcare.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He concluded: &#8220;This situation receives no attention from the international community, while millions of Sudanese suffer from famine and the spread of diseases, most notably cholera, dengue fever, measles, and malaria.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Follow-up On Sunday, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom, confirmed the collapse of the health situation in Sudan. Tedros stated during a press conference that the deteriorating health system in Sudan has reached a stage of complete collapse, with 70-80% of healthcare institutions and facilities no longer functioning. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32224,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32222\/revisions\/32224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}