Sudan's el-Fasher siege: Last surgeons standing in city's only hospital

The last functioning hospital in Sudan's Darfur region has come under constant bombardment.

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Over the last month the hospital has recorded 28 deaths and more than 50 injuries among its staff and patients because of intense shelling. This is the highest number of casualties recorded in a month since the siege began.

"Recent continuous attacks targeting Saudi Hospital have intensified dramatically, it has become part of our daily lives," Dr Ibo, a Darfuri who has lived in el-Fasher since 2011, told the BBC.

He said the most frightening day had been when a team of medics were performing an emergency caesarean as the shelling began - a near-death experience for them all.

''The first one hit the hospital's perimeter wall… [then] another shell hit the maternity operating room, the debris damaged the electrical generator, cutting off the power and plunging us into complete darkness,'' he said.

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