According to several Sudanese refugees Arab News spoke to in Cairo, many of those who remained behind face the threat of dehydration and starvation, such is the scale of the need for aid in Khartoum and nearby cities. Those unable or unwilling to flee Khartoum have been forced to hunker down in their homes with little or no access to clean water or electricity. “We have been witnessing the near collapse of the health system in Sudan,” Alyona Synenko, the Africa region spokesperson for the organization, told Arab News. According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, only 20 percent of health facilities are still operational in Khartoum. With the departure of so many medical workers, aid agencies have warned that the nation is facing a major health emergency. The public-health sector has long been fragile in Sudan, where 65 percent of the population lives in poverty. A video screengrab from social media shows the East Nile Hospital in Khartoum, one of many medical facilities damaged in the fighting since April 15.
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