Sudan: Attacks on health workers jeopardise remaining hospitals operating in Khartoum

An anaesthetist prepares a patient for an operation to remove a bullet in one of the two operational hospitals in the south of Khartoum. Photograph: Ala Kheir/MSF

Increased violence against health workers in Khartoum is endangering the few hospitals still open in the Sudanese capital, the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said after its employees were beaten and whipped by armed men on Thursday.

The MSF team was attacked 700 metres from the Turkish hospital, one of only two operating in southern Khartoum after others were forced to close during almost 100 days of fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).