Last updated on 25 July 2024.
On 15 April 2023, intense fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) 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 10 million people have been displaced, including 2 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 eight out of the 18 states in the country. Our 926 Sudanese staff and 118 international staff currently work in and/or support 14 hospitals and seven 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.
- treat communicable and non-communicable diseases
- provide maternal and paediatric healthcare
- offers 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.
- provide mental health support
MSF emergency response in Sudan (Jan-Jun 2024)
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MSF’s response in bordering countries
