Rhino: Agencies – Medical sources at Kadugli Teaching Hospital have revealed that health conditions in the city have deteriorated due to the spread of disease, confirming that the number of deaths from cholera has exceeded 500, most of them concentrated in the localities of Kadugli and the eastern countryside, according to the Darfur24 news website on Tuesday.

The sources confirmed that the past few weeks have seen an alarming increase in the daily death rate, ranging from 10 to 15 cases per day, amid an almost complete lack of necessary medicines, foremost among which are intravenous solutions that are only available in private pharmacies at exorbitant prices reaching 50,000 pounds per vial.

“Government hospitals in the city are almost devoid of the most basic medical services, as they do not have medicines, laboratory solutions, or even anesthetics, which doubles the suffering of women in childbirth,” according to sources, who pointed out that medical services are limited to private clinics only, at prices that are unaffordable for the majority of the population, where the highest current salary ranges from 150,000 to 200,000 pounds.

The sources warned that the health situation in Kadugli is likely to deteriorate further, as citizens suffer from general weakness in immunity due to hunger and lack of nutrients and fluids, in addition to the spread of diseases such as malaria in the absence of any treatment, as well as the scarcity of antibiotics and fever reducers, which puts the city in the face of a double health and living crisis that threatens the lives of thousands of its residents”.