(14 Apr 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Port Sudan, Sudan - 10 April 2024
1. Wide exterior of Port Sudan pediatric hospital
2. Close of banner reading in English/Arabic "Port Sudan pediatric teaching hospital "
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr. Ayman Abdel Qader, Medical Director of Port Sudan paediatric teaching hospital:
"During previous years, like these days of the year, during the months of March and April, we had many cases of malnutrition, but the situation changed after the war with the arrival of the displaced. We noticed a significant increase in the number of malnourished patients, and this is normal as a result of the conditions of war and the economic situation of the country."
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4. Various of doctor installing drip for baby girl inside hospital
5. Various of mother sitting on bed and putting oxygen device to her baby inside hospital
6. Various of mother sitting with her daughter on bed inside hospital
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aisha Saleh, Displaced Sudanese mother:
"She refused breastfeeding, I was feeding her with manufactured milk and then goat milk for a whole year as I couldn't afford buying imported milk, she became sick and malnourished, she lost a lot of weight and suffered from repeated diarrhoea, so I decided to come to the hospital and doctors decided to keep her under monitoring "
8. Mid of mother sitting with her daughter
9. Close of daughter’s legs
STORYLINE:
Monday will mark one year since the war in Sudan began between the country’s military, chaired by Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and the notorious Rapid Support Forces, commanded by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo.

The war in the African country has killed thousands and forced close to nine million people to flee their homes to safer areas inside Sudan or to neighbouring countries, according to United Nations figures.

But the precarious conditions and lack of aid is pushing Sudan to the edge of famine.

The food security situation has become the "biggest concern" for humanitarian agencies working in Sudan.

The U.N. says it has asked for $2.7 billion in funding to respond to humanitarian needs but has received $155 million — or 6%.

The U.N. has warned of an impending generational catastrophe.

The international community’s authority on determining the severity of hunger crises warned last month that immediate action is needed to “prevent widespread death and total collapse of livelihoods and avert a catastrophic hunger crisis in Sudan.”

An estimated 3 million Sudanese children are malnourished.

A quarter of Sudan's hospitals are no longer functioning.

About 19 million children are out of school.

Aid organizations say women and children are bearing the worst of the conflict.

Aisha Saleh is a displaced Sudanese mother who has brought her malnourished daughter to Port Sudan's paediatric hospital.

"She refused breastfeeding, I was feeding her with manufactured milk and then goat milk for a whole year as I couldn't afford buying imported milk, she became sick and malnourished, she lost a lot of weight and suffered from repeated diarrhea, so I decided to come to the hospital and doctors decided to keep her under monitoring," she said.

Hospital staff are treating malnourished children in greater numbers than this time last year says Dr. Ayman Abdel Qader, Medical Director of Port Sudan pediatric teaching hospital.

"We noticed a significant increase in the number of malnourished patients, and this is normal as a result of the conditions of war and the economic situation of the country."



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