Feature: Sudan's war exacerbates cancer patients' suffering


By [e]ktm
  • World
  • Thursday, 25 Jul 2024

KHARTOUM, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Fatima, a Sudanese patient with blood cancer, had traveled on a dangerous journey nationwide searching for life-saving treatment despite the country's ongoing war and bloodshed.

Fatima, 43, told Xinhua from an oncology center in Port Sudan how she had embarked on an odyssey from the southern inland state of West Kordofan all the way up to the Red Sea city and secured a place in a medical center already in great shortage of supplies and overwhelmed by patients.

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