Sudan doctors’ strike now covers 38 hospitals

As the general doctors’ strike in various states of Sudan has entered its seventh day, the strike action has spread to at least thirty-eight hospitals in Sudan in solidarity with the mass public protests in the country.

During the strike, they are treating emergency cases only, while many doctors have answered the call to assist civilians injured by government forces suppressing the gatherings.

The Sudanese Central Doctors’ Committee pointed in a statement to the detention of a number of doctors in El Gedaref in eastern Sudan. They were threatened and beaten before they were released again.

On Thursday, doctors and medical students of the Faculty of Medicine in El Gedaref held a protest in front of the El Gedaref Teaching Hospital in solidarity with the march organised by the Sudan Professionals Association in Khartoum on Tuesday, which demanded the step-down of President Omar Al Bashir and overthrow of the regime.