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WHO condemns the killing of patients and the abduction of health workers in Sudan

# The World Health Organisation has condemned the reported killing of more than 460 patients, as well as the abduction of six health workers, from the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher, Sudan. Before this latest attack, the WHO had verified 185 attacks on health care in Sudan with one-thousand-204 deaths and 416 injuries of health workers and patients, since the start of the conflict in April 2023. Forty-nine of these attacks occurred this year alone. WHO says all attacks on health care must stop immediately.