Last updated on 8 November 2024.
On 15 April 2023, intense fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in Khartoum and across most of Sudan. Since then, the conflict has killed and injured thousands of people.
People across large parts of Sudan, especially in Darfur, have experienced ongoing violence, including intense urban warfare, gunfire, shelling, and airstrikes. Our teams are treating patients with injuries caused by explosions, bullets, and stabbings. Healthcare workers and facilities have been attacked and looted.
An estimated 11 million people have been displaced, including nearly 3 million who have sought safety in Chad, Egypt and South Sudan (UNHCR). Displaced people’s camps lack adequate healthcare and humanitarian aid. There are catastrophic levels of malnutrition.
With very few international aid organisations on the ground, the humanitarian response is far from adequate. Restrictions imposed on humanitarian organisations by the Sudanese authorities further isolate people in need of assistance.
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MSF’s response in Sudan
In Sudan, MSF is present in 11 out of the 18 states in the country. Our 1,400 Sudanese staff and 200 international staff currently work in and/or support 21 hospitals and 12 basic healthcare facilities or clinics. We also provide healthcare in mobile clinics in two camps.
In Sudan, MSF teams:
- Provide emergency medical treatment, including surgeries, for war wounded and non-war related injuries.
- Run mobile clinics for displaced people.
- Respond to disease outbreaks.
- Provide maternal and paediatric healthcare
- Offer water and sanitation services.
- Donate medicines and medical supplies to healthcare facilities, and provide incentives, training, and logistical support to Ministry of Health staff.
- Treat severe acute malnutrition.
- Conduct vaccination campaigns.
MSF emergency response in Sudan (January-September 2024)
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MSF’s response in bordering countries
