Medics under siege: ‘We took this photo, fearing it would be our last’
Dr Mustafa Ali Abdulrahman Ibo and his colleagues bravely perform surgery under increasing bombardment in the last remaining hospital in el-Fasher, a city that has been under siege for the last nine months in Sudan's western Darfur region.
Over the last month the hospital has recorded 28 deaths and more than 50 injuries among its staff and patients because of intense shelling. This is the highest number of casualties recorded in a month since the siege began.
"Recent continuous attacks targeting Saudi Hospital have intensified dramatically, it has become part of our daily lives," Dr Ibo, a Darfuri who has lived in el-Fasher since 2011, told the BBC.
He said the most frightening day had been when a team of medics were performing an emergency caesarean as the shelling began - a near...
