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Jan Johnson

Khartoum's hospital system has collapsed after cease-fire fails

Smoke rising over Khartoum, Sudan, this week after an internationally brokered cease-fire failed. (Marwan Ali/AP)

A dire human rights crisis is sweeping across Sudan's capital Khartoum, with few facilities or personnel to care for the hurt and wounded.

The secretary-general of the Sudanese American Physicians Association, Mohamed Eisa – also a gastroenterologist at Allegheny Health Network Medicine Institute in Pittsburgh – spoke to Morning Edition from Khartoum. Since the latest unsuccessful effort to impose a 24-hour ceasefire, he said, doctors and other medical personnel have been unable to get access to the wounded.

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