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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Zeinab Mohammed Salih in Adré

Sudanese refugees in Chad unable to access medical care for war injuries

A Sudanese refugee child receives medical treatment in the Ambelia refugee camp near Adré on 5 April.
A Sudanese refugee child receives medical treatment in the Ambelia refugee camp near Adré on 5 April. Photograph: Ricardo Garcia Vilanova/EPA

Hundreds of displaced Sudanese people living in a refugee camp across the border in Chad have been unable to access vital medical care for injuries sustained during fierce battles in the Sudanese city of Geneina in the past year.

Some of those in the vast Ambelia camp near the city of Adré have permanent disabilities that could have been avoided had they undergone surgery, according to the refugees themselves and activists who are trying to arrange travel to Port Sudan in eastern Sudan, where they say medical facilities are relatively better than in Chad.

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