Khartoum State lacks all types of medicines, particularly emergency medical supplies and consumables in its hospitals as medical supplies run short, a statement by the Professional Pharmacologists Alliance said.
Khartoum: Altaghyeer
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have looted and destroyed premises of 41 medical companies and 12 medicinal factories, representing 50% of all drug factories in the country, said the Professional Pharmacologists Alliance on Sunday in a comment about drug situation in Sudan following the outbreak of fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and RSF.
The RSF has also looted 216 pharmacies in the three towns of the Sudanese capital; 103 in Khartoum, 48 in Omdurman and 65 in Bahri.
The actual number of the looted medicines facilities is expected to be more than double these figures.
The statement said the RSF has intentionally targeted health and pharmaceutical institutions particularly in Khartoum State; the main supplier for the rest of the country.
This atrocity has negatively impacted the medicines supply in Sudan as a whole, resulting in scarcity of essential and other medicines coupled with prices increase in the private sector as well as the public sector’s Medical Supplies. The latter secure basic, life-saving, cancer, diabetes, malaria and asthma medicines and medical consumables.
