A strike on a healthcare facility in Sudan has killed 64 folks and wounded 89 extra, the World Well being Group reported on Saturday (March 21, 2026).
The UN’s humanitarian workplace in Sudan had earlier mentioned it was “appalled by the assault on a hospital in East Darfur yesterday, reportedly killing dozens, together with youngsters, and injuring extra”.
The pinnacle of the World Well being Group mentioned on Saturday that 13 youngsters had been amongst 64 folks killed in a strike on a hospital in Sudan.
“WHO has verified yet one more assault on well being care in Sudan. This time, El-Daein Instructing Hospital in East Darfur’s capital, El-Daein, was struck, killing not less than 64 folks, together with 13 youngsters, two feminine nurses, one male physician, and a number of sufferers,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus mentioned on X
Sudanese rights group the Emergency Attorneys, who doc atrocities within the warfare between Sudan’s military and the paramilitary Fast Assist Forces, reported it was a military drone strike that hit the El-Daein Instructing Hospital.
The RSF dominates the huge western Darfur area, whereas the military is accountable for Sudan’s east, centre and north.
The WHO’s Surveillance System for Assaults marked Friday’s (March 20, 2026) incident as “confirmed” however didn’t give a precise location.
The assault concerned “violence with heavy weapons” and affected a secondary well being care facility, medical personnel, sufferers, provides and storage, the report confirmed.
Although the WHO counts and verifies assaults on well being care, it doesn’t attribute blame as it’s not an investigative company.
El-Daein, the RSF-controlled state capital of East Darfur, has been recurrently attacked by the military, which is attempting to push the paramilitary again in direction of its Darfur strongholds and away from Sudan’s central hall.
Its most up-to-date strike on town’s market earlier this month set hearth to grease barrels that burned for hours.
Close to-daily drone strikes at the moment are an indicator of Sudan’s brutal warfare, killing dozens at a time, principally within the southern Kordofan area.
UN rights chief Volker Turk this month mentioned he was “appalled” after greater than 200 civilians had been reported killed by drone assaults inside an eight-day interval.
“Events to the battle in Sudan proceed to make use of more and more highly effective drones to deploy explosive weapons with wide-area impacts in populated areas,” he mentioned.
To the repeated condemnation of the UN, hospitals have been a daily goal all through the warfare.
By December, greater than 1,800 folks had been killed in assaults on well being amenities for the reason that begin of the warfare, together with 173 well being employees, in accordance with the United Nations.
This 12 months, a complete of 12 assaults on well being care in Sudan have been recorded, inflicting 178 deaths and 237 accidents.
Throughout the nation, the warfare has killed tens of hundreds and pushed greater than 11 million folks from their properties.
It has fuelled what the UN describes because the world’s largest displacement and starvation crises, with extra 33 million folks in want of humanitarian assist.
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