Nine pregnant women killed in the Kafut region of the rural Al Fasher neighborhood last week, according to the MoH in North Darfur State.
The RSF rebels prevented the ladies from traveling to Al Fasher to receive safe health delivery services.
In a press statement released on Wednesday, Dr. Ibrahim Abdullah Khater, the director general of the Ministry of Health, stated that his office has been receiving periodic notifications from various hospitals and rural health centers confirming that Rapid Support elements are impeding the treatment of elderly patients, expectant mothers, and children at El-Fasher.
They are also obstructing roads to prevent the delivery of humanitarian aid, food commodities, and medication, endangering the spread of epidemic diseases linked to food shortages and malnourishment.
In order to prevent things from getting worse than they already are, Dr. Khater made a plea to international, humanitarian, and justice groups as well as the free people of Darfur living anywhere in the globe to take seriously and stop the RSF’s activities toward civilians in the state.
Dr. Khater added that he had personally observed the situation in the field and was reassured that the five medical facilities and the temporary hospital continued to offer medical services to the camp residents and the surrounding villages, which helped to stabilize the displaced people’s health conditions.
Cholera outbreak
In response to reports showing an outbreak of cholera and nutritional deficiency diseases in Zamzam camp south of El Fasher due to the spread of starvation,pointing out that no epidemic or non-epidemic cases had been reported to these medical facilities in the previous few days.
Dr. Khater went on to say that he had also been informed that the malnutrition intervention. center in the camp offered therapeutic diets and medications supplied by UNICEF for newborns, expectant mothers, and nursing mothers. In this context, he emphasized that his ministry had carried out a survey to compare the dietary needs of the cases in the camp right now with those that were noted the previous year.
All citizens of the state require food, medicine, and water, but he pointed out that the survey findings did not demonstrate a statistically significant difference, implying that there is not a huge food shortage in the refugee camp as is being portrayed.