Each day feels like a week in an environment like this
Will Harper is an experienced MSF Emergency Coordinator. He is leading the MSF team that is providing life-saving surgical care in a hospital in south Khartoum.
"We first gained access to south Khartoum one week ago and identified Bashair Teaching Hospital as a site that we could place our surgical team to be close enough to the frontline and the conflict to really save lives and respond to the needs of conflict-affected people but also to be in a place that our teams could be safe and we could operate. Bashair Teaching Hospital made sense in this zone in south Khartoum.
MSF is working in collaboration with community volunteers – doctors and nurses but also young people from the area and the community who made a decision to try to restart this hospital after it has closed and staff had left for their own safety. When the surgical team arrived in south Khartoum, we found a hospital where people are really working as hard as they can and taking risks. So we’ve joined them hand-in-hand to try to bring healthcare and life-saving surgical care to the people in this area.
The situation here is difficult, to put is simply. We have huge challenges with our drug supply and power. We’ve been running off of diesel generators for the past four days. There has been no electricity aside from our generators."