![]() The staff at the hospital have been working around the clock since the fighting started in Sudan. Rival generals are battling for control in Sudan. Each surgery takes a long time,” she says, stressing how dangerous it is for civilians to walk down the streets of the capital.Ībdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo Getty Images ![]() Every injury we get has multiple gunshot wounds – bullets in the chest, stomach, leg. Most of the other injuries she treated and saw are the result of bullets. The rest of the family have various injuries,” she says almost mechanically. ![]() “They were two brothers and their cousin. And in the third, another boy lies in a red T-shirt darkened by the blood from wounds that pierce his jaw. In the second photo, the brain of a young boy is visible through a gaping hole in his skull that extends from his forehead to the top of the head. ![]() One shows a boy with a severed leg, his muscles and bones pouring out of the skin that once held his thigh to the hip. “The kids were playing when a mortar hit their house,” she says over the phone after she shares three pictures of their lifeless bodies wrapped in blood-soaked bedsheets. In the deluge of gunshot wounds and war injuries at the small Alban Gedid hospital in Khartoum, Dr Howida AlHassand distinctly remembers the family killed in their house. ![]()
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