Khartoum reports 9 dead, 121 injured from RSF shelling
December 30, 2024 (OMDURMAN) – The Ministry of Health in Khartoum state announced on Monday that nine people were killed and 121 others injured due to shelling by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in several areas, in addition to injuries from stray bullets, over the past week.
The RSF has been launching violent attacks with heavy artillery on several areas in Khartoum state, especially Omdurman, resulting in deaths and injuries.
The Emergency Committee of the Ministry of Health in Khartoum confirmed in its weekly report on Monday that nine people died and 121 others sustained various injuries as a result of “the systematic shelling of safe areas by the RSF and stray bullets during the past week,” according to the statement.
The old neighbourhoods of Omdurman and the Karari locality north of Omdurman are subjected to repeated artillery shelling by the RSF stationed in Khartoum North and some areas west and south of Omdurman.
In a previous statement to Sudan Tribune, the Director General of the Ministry of Health in Khartoum, Fath al-Rahman Muhammad al-Amin, revealed that 30 people were killed and 643 others injured last November.
For his part, the Director of the Preventive Medicine Department, Ahmed al-Bashir Fadl Allah, explained during the review of the report that 614 male and female students taking the secondary school exams underwent medical examinations and received treatment after visiting the fixed health centres in the localities of Omdurman and Karari. The Ministry of Health dedicated these centres to students according to its plan to provide health services to examinees before and during the exams.
The report revealed a decrease in the maternal mortality rate to zero, as well as in cases of measles and whooping cough.
It stated that the General Administration organized field visits for Public Health Promotion to follow up on the prevention of cholera, dengue fever, and malaria in areas recently recaptured from the RSF in Khartoum state. This was done by providing lectures at shelters and raising awareness through social media, radio, and television.
The report pointed to the partnership with organizations and intervention operations to promote health in the northern countryside of Omdurman through field visits and mobile clinics in the Khartoum North locality, where the northern neighbourhoods are under the control of the army.
The Emergency Committee meeting also directed the need to coordinate with the Ministry of Animal Resources to reduce cases of animal bites and to provide budgets to continue activities to combat disease vectors to limit epidemics and diseases.