The U.N. health agency said it had confirmed 14 attacks on healthcare during the fighting, killing eight and injuring two, and it warned that 'depleting stocks of blood bags risk spoiling due to lack of power.'
Abid said he had received a call from the head of the national lab in Khartoum on Monday, a day before a US-brokered 72-hour ceasefire between Sudan's warring generals officially came into effect after 10 days of urban combat.
He pointed out that the lab held so-called isolates, or samples, of a range of deadly diseases, including measles, polio and cholera. "In addition to chemical hazards, bio-risk hazards are also very high due to lack of functioning generators," Abid said. , with Egypt, as Sudanese nationals sought to flee their country while other nations worked to get their citizens out.Laura Lo Castro, the agency's representative in Chad, said some 20,000 refugees had arrived there since the fighting began 10 days ago.
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