{"id":39676,"date":"2024-12-29T04:50:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T01:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=39676"},"modified":"2024-12-29T04:50:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T01:50:57","slug":"sudan-11-billion-in-losses-in-the-health-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/29\/sudan-11-billion-in-losses-in-the-health-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: $11 Billion in Losses in the Health Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sudan Events – Follow-ups<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Minister of Health Dr. Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim stated that the financial losses in Sudan’s health sector amounted to $11 billion, representing 22% of the losses in the country’s service sector.<\/div>\n
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Dr. Haitham noted that these estimates were based on currently available information, and some areas could not be reached to determine the extent of the damage.<\/div>\n
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The Ministry of Culture and Information held the second awareness conference on Saturday, via the Sudan News Agency, to shed light on the violations committed by the rebel militia against various sectors of the state.<\/div>\n
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Minister of Culture and Information, Khaled Al-Ieiser, condemned the systematic destruction carried out by the militia, reiterating the ministry’s commitment to exposing their actions.<\/div>\n
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Dr. Haitham explained in the session that the direct losses in lives reached 12,000 deaths reported in hospitals, which represent only 10% of the actual death toll, with an estimated 33,000 deaths in total. Additionally, he mentioned that 150,000 people were severely injured. The minister highlighted the tragic maternal death toll, which reached 870 due to the lack of safe delivery services and hospital access, along with 1,121 children under the age of one who died.<\/div>\n
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He also revealed that initial estimates showed the destruction of about 250 hospitals, or one-third of Sudan\u2019s hospitals, with 20 referral hospitals in various states being out of service. He expressed sorrow over the suffering of kidney patients, noting that 50% of kidney centers, or 62 centers, had stopped functioning. Additionally, 1,000 kidney patients had left the country, and 4,000 others died due to the interruption of medication. He also reported that 164 kidney transplant patients lost their lives due to the lack of regular medication.<\/div>\n
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Dr. Haitham disclosed that the stock of medicines, vaccines, and medical supplies suffered losses amounting to $500 million from the central supply alone, in addition to $20 million lost in the Gezira State. The total losses in medical supplies, warehouses, and transportation chains reached $600 million.<\/div>\n
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The minister described the situation in Sudan as the largest health and humanitarian disaster in the world, unprecedented in history. He added, “This was not an ordinary war; it went beyond military confrontations to target state systems and infrastructure, impacting human health and lives directly and indirectly.” He pointed out that a quarter of Sudan\u2019s population, or 12 million people, had been displaced.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sudan Events – Follow-ups Minister of Health Dr. Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim stated that the financial losses in Sudan’s health sector amounted to $11 billion, representing 22% of the losses in the country’s service sector. Dr. Haitham noted that these estimates were based on currently available information, and some areas could not be reached to determine …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39676","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\/39676","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=39676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39678,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39676\/revisions\/39678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}