Al-Shahid Atiyah Al-Kasah Hospital in Al-Kufra received 36 Sudanese displaced persons — including women and children — who had been lost deep in the desert south of the city for five days without sufficient water or food.
In a statement on Tuesday, the hospital confirmed that some of the individuals suffered from severe exhaustion, dehydration, and malnutrition, particularly among the children.
Medical staff at the hospital provided urgent care upon their arrival. Meanwhile, Al-Kufra’s Emergency and Ambulance Service said it had dispatched two ambulances to assist the stranded Sudanese families near the Libyan-Chadian border.
It also explained that the ambulances traveled 100 kilometers south of Al-Kufra to reach the group. Local residents from Kufra also helped in the rescue, and patrol units from the General Administration of Desert Patrols took part in the operation.
On Monday, the Head of the Emergency and Ambulance Service’s Al-Kufra branch, Ibrahim Belhassen, announced the launching of a rescue mission for a group of stranded Sudanese displaced people deep in the desert.
Belhassen explained that around 30 people — including women and ten children — were traveling in a vehicle coming from Sudan via Chadian territory, which broke down in a remote area near Wadi Hour within Libyan borders. They remained stranded in the desert for days without water or communication, under extreme heat that nearly cost them their lives.
