A World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Tuesday that a second risk assessment found that there was a “moderate risk” related to the seizure of a public health laboratory in the Sudanese capital by one of the warring parties.
“The situation and the risk are being seen as moderate,” WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic told reporters at a United Nations briefing in Geneva, Switzerland.
“This is because the lab cannot provide its main function, that is to provide the analysis and the diagnostics because of the lack of fuel and lack of trained staff,” he added.
Dr. Nima Saeed Abid, the WHO’s representative in Sudan, said last week that there was a “huge biological risk” in Khartoum after one of the fighting groups took control of a laboratory containing samples of deadly diseases….