SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga – Medicines airdropped into besieged North Darfur capital

4/6/2024: Radio Dabanga – Medicines airdropped into besieged North Darfur capital

Radio Dabanga report that the National Medical Supplies Fund (NMSF) announced it successfully airdropped 20 tons of medicines in El Fasher.

Sheikheldin Abdelbagi, director general of the NMSF, said operation “aligns with the Fund’s strategy to address wartime conditions through unconventional means to deliver medicines to various states across Sudan.

The strategy involves full coordination and cooperation with all relevant parties, including the Ministry of Defence, to ensure the delivery of medicines to hospitals and health centres when traditional supply methods are not feasible.

The medicines airdropped in El Fasher included intravenous solutions, surgical sutures, empty syringes, cannulae, anaesthetics, and antibiotics. “Preparations are underway to send more life-saving medicines, such as those for dialysis, kidney surgery, malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS. The operation was deemed a great success without significant losses,” Abdelbagi said.