Arabic version: أطباء بلا حدود تحذر من اقتراب انهيار النظام الصحي في السودان

According to BBC News, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has warned that Sudan’s fragile healthcare system is close to collapse after global funding cuts forced healthcare facilities to close.

The war between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which began in April 2023, has created one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. More than 33 million people need medical assistance. MSF said organisations funded through USAID struggled to find alternatives after the US aid body was closed last year, while European governments were also reducing international assistance.

“War is driving Sudan’s needs; funding cuts are shrinking the response,” said Muhammad Ibrahim, MSF’s head of charity in Sudan. The charity said closures mean patients must make longer, more dangerous and more expensive journeys, often reaching already-full hospitals in more serious condition.

Admissions at MSF-supported facilities in central Darfur rose 22.5% between January and April 2026 compared with the same period a year earlier, MSF said. In May, 45 healthcare centres in the area stopped receiving funding. In Gedaref state’s Tanedba camp, maternity and surgical wards closed after a humanitarian organisation left in June; women needing surgery for delivery must travel three hours to the nearest city.

MSF also said attacks on healthcare workers continued during the funding crisis. Sudan recorded 1,620 people killed in attacks on medical facilities in 2025, accounting for 82% of global deaths from attacks on healthcare, the charity said. The UN says more than 19.5 million people face crisis levels of food insecurity, while more than five million face emergency levels of hunger.