‘It’s an enormous emergency’: the doctor saving Sudan’s most vulnerable

Javid Abdelmoneim at Nasser hospital in Gaza last July, where he worked before going to Khartoum. Photograph: Courtesy of MSF

In Sudan, where a war that has caused the world’s biggest humanitarian disaster is in its second year, Dr Javid Abdelmoneim has his own daily struggles, trying to save lives in a place where the health system has all but collapsed.

Rockets and bullets have an immediate effect on people caught in the crossfire, but the wider consequences of war are wreaking havoc on the population’s health.