Since April 15, Sudan has been convulsed by intense fighting between armed groups. Teams from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are treating thousands of people and calling for the protection of civilians, medical personnel, and facilities.
Large numbers of people are fleeing Khartoum for surrounding cities like Wad Madani, where MSF runs mobile clinics in areas where displaced people gather.
2023 © Ala Kheir/MSF
Chad 2023 © Mohammad Ghannam/MSF
Many health facilities are damaged or facing shortages of supplies, cutting people off from vital medical care. Hospitals are overwhelmed, and numerous people have been forced to flee their homes in search of safety.
MSF, which runs medical projects in 10 states in Sudan, has been working to scale up medical activities since the fighting broke out. But these efforts have been hampered by violence, armed incursions, and the looting of medical facilities.
Patients arrive at the MSF-supported Bashair hospital, the only accessible hospital in southern Khartoum.
Sudan 2023 © Ala Kheir/MSF
Sudan 2023 © Ala Kheir/MSF
“We are experiencing a violation of humanitarian principles, and the space for humanitarians to work is shrinking on a scale I've rarely seen before,” said MSF emergency coordinator Jean-Nicolas Armstrong Dangelser.
MSF is urgently calling on the warring parties to ensure the safety of medical personnel and health facilities, allow safe passage of ambulances and people seeking health care, and facilitate access and unimpeded movement for humanitarian workers.
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