It is costing just £200 to save each baby from the hell of Maygoma. That is the figure needed to prepare each of them for evacuation from the institute, as well as supporting the foster parents or the natural mothers who will receive them.

Georgette Mulheir’s Hope and Homes for Children team in Khartoum is working round the clock in partnership with Unicef, the Sudanese government and other agencies to ensure they are being rescued as quickly and placed as securely as possible.

With Médecins Sans Frontières doctors and nurses trying to stem the tide of death from disease and malnutrition at the centre, it is a race against time.