The leader of the World Health Organization has strongly criticized a wave of airstrikes in Sudan’s South Kordofan State that left 114 people dead, including 63 children.
According to WHO’s Attacks on Health Care monitoring system, the strikes occurred on December 4, hitting a kindergarten and the nearby Kalogi Rural Hospital. At least 35 others were reported injured.
Hospital Bombed RepeatedlyWHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the Kalogi hospital was targeted no fewer than three times. Survivors were later transferred to Abu Jebaiha Hospital for urgent treatment, where medical teams began calling for blood donors and additional medical supplies.
Tedros also drew attention to accounts that paramedics and rescue workers came under attack while trying to move injured children from the kindergarten to the hospital.
Calls for Peace and Aid Access Grow LouderDescribing the incident as “senseless attacks on civilians and health facilities,” Tedros renewed his plea for the fighting to stop.
He called on all parties to allow unrestricted humanitarian access and ensure medical relief reaches those in urgent need. “Sudanese have suffered far too much. Ceasefire now,” he said.
