Since 15 April 2023, @WHO has verified 62 attacks on healthcare in #Sudan🇸🇩.
The right to health must be safeguarded even during conflicts and emergencies.
Health workers, facilities, assets & patients are #NotATarget#WorldHealthDay2024#MyHealthMyRight#WithSudan
We had a fantastic time at our annual Neuroscience Day last week! Congratulations to our resident award winners: oral presentation, Dr. Shari Duarte and posters, Dr. Lisa Moore, Dr. Monica Sarkar and Dr. Jesus Salas!
At Neuroscience Day, we had the opportunity to catch up with our OSU neurology residency alumni. They’re going to be attendings very, very soon and we couldn’t be more proud! 😊
SAPA_Jeddah Agreement Press Release
May 11, 2023
MEDIA CONTACT
Jonny Levenfeld, [email protected], (202) 704-4535
Sudanese American Medical NGO welcomes the agreement to protect Hospitals and calls for Immediate Implementation.
Sudanese American Physician Association (SAPA) welcomes the preliminary agreement signed by representatives from the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces, and commends, in particular, the commitment to the security and safety of healthcare facilities & personnel. SAPA calls for both sides to honor the agreement. @YYElamin , president of SAPA, released the following statement:
“For weeks, SAPA and partners have called on the SAF and RSF to cease the unconscionable attacks on Hospitals. We asked for the negotiations to address specific measures to protect healthcare workers & facilities. The signed agreement includes provisions to safeguard hospitals, healthcare workers, and ambulances and is a huge step forward if both parties carry through with their commitments.
“Medical facilities and personnel have been in the crossfire since the start of this horrific conflict, bringing the health care system to its knees. The effect has been a calamity for the Sudanese people, endangering health workers and thousands of people who rely on their care.
“For this agreement to be honored & implemented, the international community & United States must continue to exert pressure on both sides. Empty words with no action are pointless & unacceptable. We call on both sides to execute the terms of this agreement without delay.”
If you are interested in speaking further with a senior representative from SAPA, please get in touch with Jonny Levenfeld at (202) 704-4535 or [email protected].
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The Sudanese American Physicians Association is a not-for-profit, scientific professional, non-partisan, and humanitarian membership-based organization for all Sudanese physicians in the United States of America.
I am introducing legislation to punish actors undermining democracy, peace, and human rights in Sudan, and I will continue to stand by the courageous Sudanese people in their pursuit of a free, peaceful, and prosperous nation. https://t.co/OjMu1WrQP8
Just over two years after the peaceful revolution that brought down #Sudan’s brutal 30-year dictatorship, the country’s military leaders have decided to ignore the will of the people, reverse progress made by @SudanPMHamdok's civilian government, & regress back to military rule.
Sudan military coup leaders continue to kill & shoot live ammu on protesters flooding the streets today, amidst internet & communication blackout. Moreover, doctors are being arrested & prevented from treating injured in the hospitals in an extreme form of human right violation!
Tear gas, live bullets, and arrests against protesters continued in Bahri and Omdurman today, as Western countries condemned yesterday's violence and internet returned.
https://t.co/eyzpzu11qQ
This strikes me as a wholly insufficient response to the bloodbath that occurred in #Sudan today. Coming as it does only 1 days after your talks with the military leaders, where is the outrage and the action to defend pro-democracy protesters?
”One proposal under discussion would see Hamdok given greater powers but with a new cabinet more palatable to the army.”
Real Question at what point will diplomats push for civilians to be able to pick military generals more palatable to civilian leaders? https://t.co/SlXivi5z4y
#Losmapimod, an investigational small molecule drug to lower expression of a transcription factor thought to cause facioscapulohumeral #MuscularDystrophy, had favorable tolerability & safety. Read on for more info. @AANMember#AANscience https://t.co/BsC0YzUfeY