‘We will lose more doctors’: Sudan’s health workers plead for Covid jabs

Country has struggled to get vaccines to frontline medical staff, while Covid toll remains under-reported

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More than 200 Sudanese doctors, nurses and medical workers have died from Covid-19, according to sources close to the health ministry - more than three times the official figure.

Like other countries across sub-Saharan Africa, Sudan has struggled to obtain vaccines and distribute them to frontline medical staff. Many of the doctors who have died were senior consultants in their 50s and 60s or older, and so were in high-risk categories.