Hope for Sudan
On April 15th, 2023, clashes broke out between Sudan's Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Civilian neighborhoods, schools, and healthcare faculties were hardest hit, leading to the closure of multiple hospitals, healthcare clinics, and community centers.
In the face of this drastic situation, our campaign to revive the health system, in partnership with Sudan Doctors Trade Union and local NGOs, has four clear objectives:
1. Reopen hospitals to provide emergency trauma, obstetric, and lifesaving medical services.
2. Restore Primary Health Care services including routine childhood immunization.
3. Address the environmental health crisis and prevent communicable disease outbreaks.
4. Restore services for people with chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, asthma, and cancer.
Support the People of Sudan
“We are experiencing a violation of humanitarian principles and the space for humanitarians to work is shrinking on a scale I've rarely seen before"
Jean-Nicolas Armstrong
Dangelser MSF Emergency Coordinator in Sudan.
Statistics & Reports:
Sudan's fragile healthcare sector has collapsed. The WHO reported 25 attacks on healthcare facilities. According to the Sudanese Doctors Union, 60 out of the 86 hospitals in the conflict zone are not operational. Hospitals in conflict areas report shortages of healthcare staff, medical supplies, and equipment, medications, and access to electricity and fuel.
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Displacement Matrix
An estimated 1,210,214 (242,666 households) across Sudan have been displaced. The majority, 69.3%, have been from Khartoum State and 20.86 % from West Darfur.
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Return Intentions
Despite healthcare workers' deplorable conditions, targeted attacks on their person have been reported. Humanitarian agencies in the healthcare sector, like MSF, have also been subjected to harassment, and there was targeted looting of their facilities.
