Media advisory - Sudan updated information

Changes to operations in Sudan

NEW activities in the past few months

· In Bahri, north Khartoum city, on 11 February the MOH started running mobile clinics. The MOH programme is complemented by MSF providing vehicles, incentives and additional medicines to MOH stocks. The MOH run mobile clinics will provide health services for vulnerable communities in Bahri. The clinics will provide diagnosis and treatment for communicable and non-communicable diseases, reproductive health services, ambulatory therapeutic feeding care and referrals of critical cases.

· In South Darfur, MSF has already carried out two targeted food distributions and will continue providing two months’ worth of food to 6,000 patients and their families—30,000 people in total. This includes patients already receiving treatment in MSF malnutrition programs, as well as those in MSF facilities, including pregnant and lactating women and children with malaria, diarrhoea, or respiratory illnesses who also have malnutrition, along with their families.

· A measles vaccination campaign was conducted in North Jabal Marra due an outbreak that affected over 1,000 individuals, primarily unvaccinated under five children. The campaign achieved 130% coverage.

Other changes

· In January 2025, MSF suspended all medical activities at Bashair Teaching Hospital in south Khartoum after a series of violent security incidents.

· At the end of January MSF ended its support for Al Saudi [maternity] hospital in Omdurman though we will continue with construction of the waste zone. MSF will be supporting waste management in Al Saudi, Al Nao and Al Buluk hospitals.

· Cholera responses were ended/handed over after the number of patients decreased in New Halfa and Kassala city in Kassala state, and in January supported the cholera response in Rabak Hospital in the While Nile state.

· MSF handed over mobile clinic activities in Wadi Halfa in Northern State at the end of January 2025.

MSF Operations in Sudan

Overview of activities (as of January 2025)

MSF works in 10 out of 18 states in Sudan.

MSF teams work in or support:

· 22 hospitals.

· 42 primary healthcare facilities/clinics and mobile clinic sites.

· 15 Integrated Community Case Management (ICCM) sites.

· MSF has 1,597 locally recruited staff and 222 international staff currently working on Sudan. MSF is also paying incentives to 3,220 Ministry of Health staff.

MSF’s main medical activities in Sudan:

· Emergency care and surgery, including trauma care for war wounded and non-war related injuries

· Maternal and paediatric healthcare, including caesarean sections

· Malnutrition screening and in-hospital and at-home treatment for acutely malnourished children and pregnant mothers

· Outpatient care and mobile clinics, including in sites hosting displaced people and refugees

· Routine- and catch-up vaccination campaigns

· Responses to outbreaks of diseases - cholera, measles etc.

· Donations of medicines and medical supplies to healthcare facilities

· Incentives, training, and logistical support to Ministry of Health staff

· Water and sanitation activities (WATSAN), including setting up and restoring/cleaning latrines and water points.

Collective data of all sections operating in Sudan for the period January to December 2024

Medical Category Data

· Awareness about Sudan: The conflict in Sudan has triggered the world's largest displacement crisis, with over 12 million people—more than one in five Sudanese—forced to flee their homes since the war began. Sudan's health system has collapsed, according to WHO 70-80% of facilities non-operational due to insecurity, critical shortages of staff and supplies, soaring costs, and widespread looting—forcing patients to seek help late, often at the risk of their lives.

· Access to health care: Millions of Sudanese are without access to essential care amid alarming malnutrition rates, high maternal and child mortality, and widespread outbreaks of cholera, measles, and dengue—amplified by insecurity, critical shortages, and widespread obstruction of medical supplies.

· Protection for civilians, civilian areas, civilian infrastructure, health workers and facilities: The war in Sudan is a war on people. People in Sudan are continuing to be subject to horrific violence as warring parties continue to attack each other with little respect for civilian life.

· Health care workers and facilities must never be targeted or attacked; they must be respected and protected at all times by all warring parties.

· Scale up for the humanitarian response: The humanitarian response in Sudan remains critically underfunded and hindered by restricted access to conflict zones. The response needs urgent scale up to meet the needs of the people in Sudan.

MSF Sudan Activity Map