WHO: Children Killed in Attack on Al-Mujlad Hospital

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The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has condemned the attack on Al-Mujlad Hospital in West Kordofan State, which he said killed more than 40 people, many of them children and doctors.

"We can only speak out loud: Attacks on health everywhere must stop!" Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.

Al-Mujlad Hospital was bombed on Saturday, located near one of the front lines between Sudans warring parties in the conflict, now in its third year.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) blame their adversary, the Sudanese army, for the attack on the hospital. Two prominent civil society organizations also blame the army itself, but the army has yet to comment on this claim.

Since the outbreak of the civil war in Sudan in April 2023, the scale of the suffering has reached such an extent that the United Nations has described it as the worlds worst humanitarian crisis.

According to the Sudan Doctors Network, Al-Mujlad Hospital, in the town of Al-Mujlad, was "the only functioning health facility in the area."

The World Health Organizations office in Sudan stated on Sunday that among the more than 40 dead were six children and five health workers. It added that dozens of other people were also injured.

The hospital operates a dialysis unit and focuses on caring for civilians rather than soldiers, according to the Emergency Lawyers Group, which documents abuses by both the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the army.

Both the Sudan Doctors Network and the Emergency Lawyers Group claim that the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) were responsible for Saturdays attack.

However, the Doctors Union claims that the attack was triggered by the armys attempt to bomb RSF fighters "positioned" inside Al-Mujlad Hospital. The RSF and the army have not commented on this allegation.