DOCTORS IN SUDAN SUSPEND WORKING AT MILITARY HOSPITALS

Tue 18 January 2022:

As part of the demand for full civilian rule, three organisations representing Sudanese doctors ceased work at military-run facilities on Tuesday.

“Continuing work by doctors and medical staff at hospitals run by the military and police is a recognition of the practices of these putschist forces,” the three groups said in a joint statement.

The Sudan Doctors Union, the Sudan Doctors Central Committee, and the Sudanese Committee of Consultants and Specialists all signed the declaration.

The three organizations also announced that beginning Tuesday, doctors will go on strike for three days.

The Sudanese authorities have not responded to the statement.

The escalation comes just one day after seven demonstrators were killed in Khartoum by army fire during rallies.

Sudan has been in upheaval since the military deposed Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok’s transitional government and declared a state of emergency on October 25, 2021.

Sudan was administered by a sovereign council of military and civilian authorities prior to the military takeover, which was tasked with supervising the transition phase until elections in 2023.

Following an agreement, Hamdok was reinstalled on Nov. 21, but demonstrators slammed the arrangement, demanding that any military control over the transitional government coalition be removed. He resigned on January 2 due to a political impasse.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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