Sudan’s doctors struggle with exhaustion, blood shortages and violence that has claimed some of their own as they try to treat a massive influx of wounded.
Bashir is a veteran of the pro-democracy protests that helped end the three-decade rule of dictator Omar al-Bashir in 2019. He remembers spending three hours back then trying to reach an injured protester under fire. Security forces had shot, beaten and arrested doctors for trying to help demonstrators. Finally, he reached the man, who survived.by today’s antagonists: Vice President Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo — universally referred to as Hemedti — and de facto president Lt. Gen.
One young father who had been shot in the leg finally arrived Saturday after a relay of volunteers carried him, he said. “The man is 27. He had lost hope and believed he would die,” Bashir said. Doctors were able to treat him and reach his family to tell them he had made it.Ahmed el Tayyeb, a consultant general surgeon at Khartoum General Hospital, said he had been operating nearly nonstop on gunshot patients for the past 36 hours.
The blood shortages were bad even before fighting began, because of a shortage of blood bags, he said, and now are even worse.
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