Collateral Damage; Humanity is lost in AL-Hilalia!

By: Alaa Babiker

During war times, humanity should be the first to consider, people should be taken care of properly, because in these difficult times man is not dead of bullets, but of negligence and deteriorations at all aspects. All pillars of life – health, economy, agriculture, and even environment – depend on security, and when the security is lost, all collapse!

The war in Sudan is not only teaching us how to unite as one nation, it teaches us that our health infrastructures have only been working inside Khartoum, and when it collapsed the whole country is following too. I feel very sad to hear that in Al-Hilalia town more that 400 people are dead because of watery diseases! What is happening?! This is more than 20 times more deaths that bullets in the same town. Unfortunately, people who died of bullet shots are 12 so far in this town, and the number of watery disease deaths is rising at a regular basis! And it will only stop by a miracle from Allah, or by an extremely effective health intervention rescue plan.

The government needs to pay more attention to what is happening. We are losing lives of health issues! This is a different level of crisis. We need more coordination, intervention, and rapid action to start reducing this chaos.

The Armed Forces has been considering the lives of civilians when firing bombs at the Rapid Support Forces, all not to kill innocent people. But now the innocent civilians are dying anyway of an avoidable cause, and they urgent health interventions.

Please, lets save the people of Al-Hilalia, and stop this outbreak from becoming and endemic, because these bacteria are way more powerful then bullets specially under the poor circumstances we currently have.

May Allah have mercy upon the dead, and may Him grant wisdom, strength, and positive thinking to our leaders to end this war.