Sudan’s healthcare system on brink of collapse, MSF warns
More than a third of Sudan's health facilities are nonoperational as aid cuts deepen crisis, medical charity says.
War-torn Sudan’s healthcare system is facing a deep crisis as international aid funding has dwindled, cutting millions off from essential services, Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, has warned.
The medical charity said on Tuesday that a greater number of patients are being pushed towards a shrinking number of facilities, even as certain regions have seen intensifying violence and displacement with the country’s war escalating.
It urged governments at the United Nations General Assembly, which is currently convening, to protect health funding and provide stopgap financing for facilities at risk of closing.
“Donors must protect essential health services and provide sustained, flexible funding to organisations that depend on it,” he says in the report.