(Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization called on Saturday for an end to attacks on healthcare workers and facilities in Sudan after a drone attack on a hospital in Sudan's North Darfur region killed more than 70 people and wounded dozens.

The head of the World Health Organization called on Saturday for an end to attacks on health care workers and facilities in Sudan after a drone attack on a hospital in Sudan's North Darfur region killed more than 70 people and wounded dozens.

Following the attack on Saudi Teaching Maternal Hospital in El Fasher, Sudan, which resulted in 70 deaths and 19 injuries, UNICEF on Tuesday said that at least one girl and three boys were reportedly killed and three boys injured.

Türkiye on Sunday strongly condemned an attack by the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a Saudi hospital in Sudan, emphasizing that

Geneva: Director-General of World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, today called for an immediate halt to attacks on healthcare facilities and personnel in Sudan, following a drone strike on "Saudi Hospital" in Al-Fasher, North Darfur, that killed more than 70 people and injured dozens.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei condemned the attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, was accused in 2017 of downplaying cholera epidemics that hit Ethiopia and Sudan. A group of American doctors ...

Reported attack follows RSF warning In the Saudi hospital attack in El Fasher, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom ... Sudan’s people need peace. The best medicine is peace.” Ghebreyesus ...

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general ... “We continue to call for a cessation of all attacks on health care in Sudan, and to allow full access for the swift restoration of the ...

A Ugandan health official says a nurse died of Ebola, in the first recorded fatality since the country's last outbreak ended in 2023.

An attack on Saudi Teaching Maternal Hospital in El Fasher, Sudan, resulted in 70 deaths and 19 injuries. UNICEF and WHO condemn the attack, emphasizing its devastating impact on children and healthcare access.