MSF suspends surgery at Khartoum hospital after Sudanese military blocks supplies

Members of MSF’s surgical team extract a bullet from a patient’s leg at Bashair teaching hospital in Khartoum. Photograph: Ala Kheir/MSF

The medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières has suspended life-saving surgery at a hospital in Khartoum after the Sudanese military blocked medical supplies from entering the city.

MSF said it had been refused permission to transport supplies from warehouses in Wad Madani, in Al Jazirah state, to hospitals in the south of the capital since 8 September. The charity said on Thursday that medication and materials at Bashair teaching hospital have now run out and the team could no longer perform trauma surgery or caesarean sections.