{"id":229565,"date":"2026-04-05T02:32:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-we-watched-them-die-before-our-eyes-sudan-health-workers-helpless-amid-medical-shortages\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:32:59","slug":"sudan-we-watched-them-die-before-our-eyes-sudan-health-workers-helpless-amid-medical-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-we-watched-them-die-before-our-eyes-sudan-health-workers-helpless-amid-medical-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: &#8216;We Watched Them Die Before Our Eyes&#8217; &#8211; Sudan Health Workers Helpless Amid Medical Shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">As violence forces tens of thousands to flee Sudan&#8217;s South Kordofan state, doctors in a key maternity hospital are facing impossible choices &#8211; with too few supplies, too many patients, and lives slipping away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><strong>RELATED:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604040170.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Urges the World Not to Ignore the Sudan Crisis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">&#8220;We had to watch two of the babies die before our eyes,&#8221; said Dr. Hasan Babikir, describing the death of premature triplets he was unable to treat due to a lack of intensive care beds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">As tens of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604040171.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>As violence forces tens of thousands to flee Sudan&#8217;s South Kordofan state, doctors in a key maternity hospital are facing impossible choices &#8211; with too few supplies, too many patients, and lives slipping away. RELATED:\u00a0\u00a0WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Urges the World Not to Ignore the Sudan Crisis &#8220;We had to watch two of the babies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":229566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681112:3b34877b9dcae5ce237590f39353926d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,9028,4342,5731,54094,7417,257,18813,254,4708,1613,33150,6498],"class_list":["post-229565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-die","tag-eyes","tag-health","tag-helpless","tag-medical","tag-news","tag-shortages","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-watched","tag-workers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681112:3b34877b9dcae5ce237590f39353926d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229565","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=229565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}