War limits maternity care in Darfur
UNFPA reports that expectant mothers in western Sudan's Central Darfur face life-threatening delays because specialist maternity care, emergency medicines and anaesthetic supplies are scarce amid ongoing fighting between the RSF and SAF. Golo town hosts the only hospital able to perform C-sections for many miles, and women often travel hours on foot, on crude stretchers or by donkey, arriving too late. Tawila displacement camp holds more than 700,000 people and local facilities are running out of oxytocin, limiting the ability to stop fatal postpartum bleeding; UNFPA urges mobile clinics, decentralization and support for community midwives.
Oxytocin and anaesthetic supplies are running out in central Darfur
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Fighting began after a breakdown in the transition to civilian rule in April 2023. The…
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