Sudan's healthcare system on brink of collapse after cuts, medical charity warns

"War is driving Sudan's needs; funding cuts are shrinking the response," said Muhammad Ibrahim, the head of charity in Sudan."MSF's work in Sudan is privately funded. But when funding disappears from other health services, clinics close, patients have fewer places to go, and pressure shifts to the facilities that remain, including ours."This has meant that patients often have to make dangerous and long trips to get treatment."After a longer and more expensive journey, patients often arrive in a much more serious condition, and the hospital may already be full," explained Sebastián Traficante, MSF's emergency co-ordinator in the western region of Darfur, which has experienced much of the fighting over the last three years.Between January and April 2026, MSF saw admissions jump by 22.5% in facilities it supports in central Darfur, when compared to the same time last year. In May alone, 45 healthcare centres in the area had stopped receiving funding, it said.According to MSF, the closure of frontline services was putting other hospitals under severe strain - as they were losing their capacity to function and medicines were disappearing.It gave Gedaref state's Tanedba camp, where 18,40...