Alliance of bullets and Malaria

Yosouf Siraj
"Malaria shares lead in harvesting the lives of our people..." In the context of the statement by the Pre-Commission of the Sudanese Physicians Union on the deteriorating health conditions, it warned of a growing prevalence of rates of malaria, indicating that it was approaching the registration of 1 million cases since the outbreak of the war in the Sudan.

The Doctors Committees statement indicated that officially recorded malaria cases from April 15 to October 20 amounted to 842,887 cases, including 27 deaths.

Physicians statistics represent the tip of the iceberg in safe states outside of military operations. The picture is undoubtedly darker in states burning with the flames and consequences of war, where the majority of medical health institutions and preventive centres are out of service.

In addition, medical personnel are displaced, as are the effects of forced displacement and asylum, with their financial salaries and entitlements suspended for more than seven months.

As if the misfortunes had crossed over the heads of the Sudanese with the first shot of war.

The figures and warnings made by the Doctors Committee on malaria come at a time when the epidemiological spread of cholera is accelerating, with more than four states registering varying cases.

Not only did the Pre-Commission of the Physicians Union provide these frightening statistics, but the Ministry of Healths indictment went ahead with inaction, the collapse of the disease screening system, the absence of preventive measures and the near-total lack of medicines.

The decommissioning of the largest health facilities in the war has increased pressure on the health system in the safe states.

The negative indicators of the prevalence of epidemics and malaria in all states of the Sudan portend high mortality rates that have not ceased with multiple causes since the outbreak of the damn war.

The de facto government and its health authorities must now take the necessary preventive and curative measures to combat epidemics and endemic diseases. The deteriorating reality calls for the organization of all activists and community-based organizations in awareness-raising and education campaigns in response to the threats posed, which limit their chances of escaping in the context of this contaminated climate.