US EditionResidents in rural Sudan say the Iran war has made it harder to get medicines
Indirect effects of the Iran war have stranded $130,000 in aid, jeopardizing medicine supplies for a rural Sudanese clinic and its 5,000 patients.
- A public health clinic supported by the International Rescue Committee in Qoz Nafisa, Sudan, is struggling to serve roughly 5,000 residents as the war with Iran creates severe medicine shortages, leaving patients like 61-year-old Abbas Awad without treatment.
- The conflict has essentially closed the Strait of Hormuz, forcing aid groups to reroute supplies through alternate routes; about $130,000 in pharmaceuticals intended for Sudan was delayed in Dubai for weeks. The United Nations reports shipping costs have spiked up to 20%.
- Dr. Amira Sidig, the clinic's medical director, said IRC shipments expected in February and April never arrived; the last delivery was in December. For several days this month, the clinic had no malaria treatment for 50% of patients seeking care.
- Clinic worker Ahmed Ibrahim said patients are increasingly frustrated, asking staff, "Why are you here and there is no medicine?" Residents forced to search other clinics and spend their own limited money they often cannot afford.
- President Donald Trump extended a fragile ceasefire with Iran this week, but aid groups remain skeptical of immediate relief. Madiha Raza, associate director for the IRC, said, "There's still a real lag in the system; shipments remain blocked or delayed.
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Residents in rural Sudan say the Iran war has made it harder to get medicines - The Morning Sun
QOZ NAFISA, Sudan (AP) — It’s always been challenging for Abbas Awad to find medicines in his village outside Sudan ’s capital. But since the war in Iran, it’s become harder. Prices have spiked and many pharmacies in the area are out of stock. The latest war in the Middle East has far-reaching effects, including on countries ravaged by conflicts of their own. After three years of war in Sudan, a public health clinic in Qoz Nafisa village in Khar…
Residents in rural Sudan say the Iran war has made it harder to get medicines - Regional Media News
QOZ NAFISA, Sudan (AP) - It's always been challenging for Abbas Awad to find medicines in his village outside Sudan 's capital. But since the war in Iran, it's become harder. Prices have spiked and many pharmacies in the area are out of stock. The latest war in the Middle East has far-reaching effects, including on countries ravaged by conflicts of their own. After three years of war in Sudan, a public health clinic in Qoz Nafisa village in Khar…
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