On 15 April 2023, intense fighting broke out between the Sudanese military and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Khartoum and across most of Sudan. Since then, the fighting has killed and injured thousands of people.
Large parts of Sudan have experienced ongoing violence, including intense urban warfare, gunfire, shelling and airstrikes. Our teams report that hospitals are overwhelmed, and in some areas, people are unable or too afraid to get to health facilities because the fighting is too intense and/or the facilities have been damaged in the fighting. Many people are cut off from medical care at a time when they need it most.
People are fleeing to safer areas, as they face food and water shortages, forcing them to move to try to meet their basic needs. People are also facing difficulties accessing medical care as the healthcare system is collapsing, with many hospitals facing shortages in supplies and staff.
In response to the lack of fuel and medical supplies, our teams have managed to make donations to hospitals in several states including Khartoum, Al-Jazeera, North and Central Darfour and Red Sea states.
We call on parties of the conflict to ensure humanitarian access and to allow us to assist the Sudanese people.Ahmed Abd-elrahman, MSF director of operations in Brussels
We are currently working in 10 states: Khartoum, Al-Jazeera, West Darfur, North Darfur, Central Darfur, South Darfur, Al-Gedaref, Blue Nile, White Nile and River Nile. Our teams have started new activities in some of these locations, including emergency and surgical care in Khartoum, mobile clinics and relief item distributions in Wad Madani, and water and sanitation activities in Port Sudan.
We have shifted some of our activities to meet the emergency needs, including in El Fasher hospital, where we have treated over 1,000 war-wounded patients. We also carry out emergency obstetric surgery, as well as normal deliveries, and are now supporting the paediatric hospital in El Fasher.
MSF’s surgical activities in Bashair Teaching Hospital in south Khartoum are ongoing. In July, the emergency room received 1,073 patients. More than 60 per cent of them had experienced violent trauma, such as gunshot wounds or injuries caused by explosions.
We also have surgical and medical teams working in the Turkish Hospital in Khartoum. In total, our teams treated 3,855 patients in this hospital from mid-June to the end of July.
We have been forced to suspend some activities due to violence and insecurity in some other parts of the country. This includes our activities in Niyala in South Darfur, and the MSF-supported El Geneina Teaching Hospital in West Darfur, which were subject to looting.
Conflict in Sudan
Surgical supply ban in Khartoum must be immediately reversed
Press Release
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Chad
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Press Release
7 Nov 2023
Conflict in Sudan
MSF suspends surgery in Khartoum hospital as supplies remain blocked
Press Release
19 Oct 2023
Conflict in Sudan
Six months of war and neglect in Sudan is a “catastrophic failure of humanity”
Press Release
12 Oct 2023
Conflict in Sudan
MSF-supported Al Nao hospital in Omdurman hit by shelling
Statement
10 Oct 2023
South Sudan
Aid woefully inadequate for returnees stuck in deplorable conditions in Renk
Press Release
3 Oct 2023
Conflict in Sudan
Overwhelming needs in White Nile as conflict pushes people to limit
Voices from the Field
28 Sep 2023
Sudan
Catastrophic health crisis in Sudan demands more action
Statement
21 Sep 2023
Conflict in Sudan
Forty-nine people killed in Khartoum’s deadliest weekend since conflict began
Press Release
12 Sep 2023
South Sudan
Sudan returnees arrive back in South Sudan in alarming health
Press Release
31 Aug 2023
Chad
MSF appeals for immediate response to Sudanese refugee crisis in Chad
Press Release
31 Aug 2023
Conflict in Sudan
People trapped by indiscriminate attacks in Nyala, South Darfur
Statement
24 Aug 2023