Sudan
Turning to Sudan, we along with our humanitarian partners are continuing to scale up our response to spiralling needs all over the country.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has delivered 30 tons of medical supplies to Al-Jazirah state. Trauma supplies to treat 2,400 people were delivered yesterday to five hospitals there and three hospitals in the capital, Khartoum.
WHO also supports the delivery of critical items to its partners and has additional supplies in the pipeline. Those will be released as soon as the security situation and logistics situation allow.
Meanwhile, our humanitarian partners are resuming operations in some states in the Darfur region.
For example, in North Darfur, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has helped deliver some 235,000 litres of clean water to eight health-care facilities and one nutrition centre. UNICEF is also distributing water, sanitation and health supplies for nearly 15,700 patients at more than a dozen health-care facilities.
And in Eastern Darfur, UNICEF has provided clean water to some 40,000 people in the Elneem camp for internally displaced people.
Chad
And just as an illustration of the regional impact of the crisis in Sudan, our team in Chad tells us that, following the start of conflict in Sudan a month ago, approximately 80,000 people have arrived in the country, including 60,000 refugees and 20,000 Chadians who are returning home.
To give you a bit of context, Chad was already home to over 1 million forcibly displaced persons, including about 600,000 refugees, mainly from Sudan, the Central African Republic, Cameroon and Nigeria.
So far, 3,000 refugee families have received non-food items from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund). UNICEF has also installed water points and distributed water treatment material, ready-to-use therapeutic food, as well as essential medicines to health centres to ensure the treatment of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
The World Food Programme (WFP), for its part, has distributed food and nutrition supplies to more than 20,000 new refugees in eight different locations along the eastern border, while the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) is boosting reproductive health support with dignity kits and other supplies.
Our team, led by Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Violet Kakyomya, is concerned about the imminent start of the rainy season, as thousands of people need transportation from border areas to other locations before roads become obstructed.
The Government of Chad and the UN are calling on international partners to provide more financial and material assistance to refugees and returnees.
