Sudanese Minister of Health: Outlaw RSF Militia Assassinated 55 Doctors

Interview: Abid Saidahmad

Sudanese Minister of Health Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim justified the reasons for announcing the spread of cholera in Sudan, saying that the disease is not transcontinental and that there are no external effects to its announcement. He stressed that the announcement gives the right to obtain the vaccine.

Meanwhile, he revealed that they monitored a foreign organization that brought drugs into Sudan. He also uncovered the assassination of 55 doctors by the rebel Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Militia. “The size of the health sector’s losses due to the war amounts to about $11 billion.”, he unveiled.

The Minister of Health said, in an interview with the (Sudanese Echoes) platform, which will be published tomorrow, that there is a committee to deal with the corpses in the liberated areas, but he said that the remnants of the war will have long-term effects on human beings.

In the same context, the minister disclosed operations to transport medicines to citizens in areas where the outlaw RSF Militia is present in Khartoum Bahri, East Nile and South Khartoum via sea transport and via citizens, while airdrops are being made to other areas.

In a related context, the Minister of Health underlined their efforts to facilitate therapy procedures for Sudanese in Egypt, in addition to resolving the issue of health requirements for granting visas to Sudanese to visit Egypt, which require polio tests for adults and children, indicating their liaise with the Egyptian side, hoping that the Egyptian government would respond to the request.