How MSF is responding to the crisis in Sudan

Khartoum 

Since April 23, MSF teams have been able to make donations to five health facilities in Khartoum to help them continue functioning and providing medical care. This includes delivering 10 tons of life-saving medical supplies to Jabra Hospital to treat the wounded in Khartoum. In addition, an MSF surgical team has arrived in Port Sudan, and is immediately moving to areas of the country where their skills are needed to provide urgent medical care, such as Khartoum.   

El Fasher  

In El Fasher, North Darfur State, the MSF-supported hospital is now the only one that remains operational in the city. The teams are working around the clock to treat the injured. So far, 427 people have made it to the hospital for treatment, and 89 have died from their injuries.  

Wad Madani 

An MSF team started running mobile clinic activities in Wad Madani on May 2. We distributed hygiene and non-food items to displaced people in the region, prioritizing the most vulnerable, who are currently sheltering in public buildings. We are also supporting Kamlin hospital, which has been designated as referral hospital for patients from Khartoum affected by the violence. These activities will continue while we assess the need for additional activities to respond to the health and humanitarian needs of displaced people in this area. 

MSF continues to provide care in Sudan 

MSF-supported facilities continue to provide medical care in Kreinik, western Darfur; in Rokero, central Darfur; in Um Rakuba and Tinedba, Al-Gedaref state; and in Damazin, in Blue Nile State. In some other parts of the country, fighting has forced us to suspend some operations. In Nyala, southern Darfur, our compound and warehouse were looted.  

MSF has not left and does not plan to leave Sudan. We continue to assess where and how we can scale up and expand our response, to new areas where needs are clear and we are able to use capacity and supplies already in the country, while additional supplies and staff arrive. We remain committed to providing much-needed health care to people in Sudan, especially during these challenging moments. But to do so, we need to be able to ensure safety and security for our staff and patients, and we must be able to bring in and move supplies and people to places where they are needed most. 

Our thoughts are with our Sudanese colleagues, patients, and civilians who are trapped in this conflict. We reiterate our calls to all parties to the conflict to avoid civilian areas and to spare civilian lives.    

People from Sudan flee to Chad

As of June 2023, MSF has treated more than 70 wounded people—including a 3-year-old child—at a hospital in Adré in the eastern Ouaddaï province of Chad. Most of the injuries that MSF and local health authorities have treated at this facility are gunshot wounds inflicted in clashes and attacks in Masterei, a Sudanese border town south of West Darfur’s capital, El Geneina. Approximately 100,000  people have fled to Chad since the fighting started in Sudan in April.

MSF is carrying out vaccination campaigns to protect children against measles a disease that can spread rapidly when people are living close to each other, like in refugee camps. So far, more than 30,000 children have been vaccinated against measles in Koufroun, Diza, Midjiguilta, and Goungour.