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The world must ‘wake up’ and help Sudan – WHO Chief   The chief of the United Nations' World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was shocked by the world's insufficient action to stop the crisis in Sudan after visiting a children's hospital caring for malnourished infants in Port Sudan on Saturday, September 7.  At a press conference on Sunday, September 8, Ghebreyesus urged the world to "wake up" and help the war-stricken country as it faces multiple crises.  The WHO Chief said the people of Sudan were struggling though flooding, dam bursting, diseases including cholera, malaria, dengue, measles, the risk of Mpox, conflict-related sexual violence and a near collapse of the country's entire health system.   REUTERS VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net    Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes  #worldnews  #sudan  #unitednations

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00:00The conflict has left some 25 million people, more than half of the country's population,

00:08in dire need of humanitarian aid.

00:11Of this, 14.7 million require urgent assistance for a range of life-saving support, for which

00:20the humanitarian sector has requested $2.7 billion, which is less than half funded.

00:27But we must focus on all people in need, all 25 million people.

00:33And this means additional resources are required to meet their needs.

00:40And we are calling on the world to wake up and help Sudan out of the nightmare it's living

00:47through.

00:48According to available data, Sudan's conflict has so far killed more than 20,000 people.

00:54This is an underestimate, by the way.

00:58Displaced over 10 million people inside the country and forced another 2 million to flee

01:05to neighboring countries.

01:07This is the largest internal displacement of people in the world today.

01:14The scale of the emergency is shocking.

01:17And as is, the insufficient action being taken to curtail the conflict and respond

01:25to the suffering it's causing.

01:28Sudanese are suffering through a perfect storm of crisis.

01:34Over 500 days of conflict, the largest level of displacement in the world, famine in some

01:43parts and risk of this in others, 25.6 million people, over half of Sudanese population,

01:52are expected to face high levels of acute food insecurity, disasters including flooding

01:58leading to dams bursting, disease outbreaks, including cholera, malaria, dengue, and measles

02:08with the risk of mpox, multiple reported incidents of conflict-related sexual violence,

02:18and the near collapse of much of the country's health system, an estimated 70 to 80 percent

02:24of the health facilities not fully functioning across the country.

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The world must ‘wake up’ and help Sudan – WHO Chief

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