{"id":223877,"date":"2026-02-15T12:45:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-hospitals-in-the-crosshairs-the-targeting-of-medical-staff-and-patients-in-el-fasher\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T12:45:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:45:55","slug":"sudan-hospitals-in-the-crosshairs-the-targeting-of-medical-staff-and-patients-in-el-fasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-hospitals-in-the-crosshairs-the-targeting-of-medical-staff-and-patients-in-el-fasher\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Hospitals in the Crosshairs &#8211; the Targeting of Medical Staff and Patients in El Fasher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">For months, El Fasher was cut off from the world. No safe roads, no reliable communications, no functioning supply chains. Inside the besieged city, hospitals became islands of desperation. Doctors worked without anaesthesia, without electricity, and often without hope. Yet they kept going.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"66\">Dr Ezzeldin Aswo, a surgeon, was one of them; during the siege, medical teams performed more than 12,000 surgical operations. They carried out many of those procedures at night, under bombardment, using only&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602130035.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For months, El Fasher was cut off from the world. No safe roads, no reliable communications, no functioning supply chains. Inside the besieged city, hospitals became islands of desperation. Doctors worked without anaesthesia, without electricity, and often without hope. Yet they kept going. Dr Ezzeldin Aswo, a surgeon, was one of them; during the siege, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":223878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,46684,43880,4993,7417,257,4991,254,6221,4708,1613,15084],"class_list":["post-223877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crosshairs","tag-fasher","tag-hospitals","tag-medical","tag-news","tag-patients","tag-south-africa-today","tag-staff","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-targeting"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}