UNFPA Supports Medical Supplies in Sudan

Port Sudan – Sudanhorizon

The Country Director of the United Nations Population Fund revealed projects to support medical supplies in Sudan, including refrigerated vehicles and medicine transport containers with a capacity of 50 tons per vehicle that will arrive in Sudan in the coming weeks.

The Director said during her meeting with the Acting Federal Minister of Health, Dr. Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim, on Monday, that the project is a major boost to the country’s drug supply system, especially after the National Fund for Medical Supplies lost most of its transport fleet due to the war.

The Acting Federal Minister of Health, in his meeting with the Director in Port Sudan, praised the Fund’s great role in supporting mothers and children, noting that there are five Fund offices in the country working to support the health sector, in addition to the continuity of their work in hard-to-reach areas such as El-Fasher with field partners such as the Patients’ Aid Fund Organization.

The Minister reviewed the health situation in the country due to the violations of the militias, and their obstruction of the arrival of food and medicine to those in need in different areas of Sudan.

He praised the support of partners in providing maternal health supplies, training cadres, contributing to developing treatment protocols, and following up on supplies for rape cases resulting from the attacks of the Rapid Support Forces militias on women and mothers since the outbreak of the war.