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Amidst a brutal ongoing war and a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, people in Sudan face reduced access to healthcare as facilities across the country close their doors as the impact of broad and historic international aid funding cuts by governments begin to take hold. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns this withdrawal of support from an already chronically underfunded crisis is cutting off essential care and pushing the few remaining hospitals to breaking point. As world leaders gather at the UN General Assembly, governments and institutional donors must protect funding for essential health services in Sudan and provide flexible transitional financing where facilities are at risk of closure.

With aid organizations pulling out, local clinics are left without the funds or medicines needed to function. For patients, this means enduring long, dangerous journeys just to receive treatment. As they seek help wherever they can, the few hospitals still operational are absorbing the overflow: between January and April 2026, admissions in MSF-supported facilities in Zalingei and Rokero in Central Darfur jumped by 22.5 per cent compared to the same time last year. The situation has deteriorated even further in May when 45 general healthcare centres in Central Darfur stopped receiving support as the organization that had been providing resources lacked funding.

“War is driving Sudan’s needs; funding cuts are shrinking the response,” says Muhammad Ibrahim, MSF country director 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.”

“Donors must protect essential health services and provide sustained, flexible funding to organizations that depend on it,” says Ibrahim.

Tanedba camp, in Gedaref state, is home to 18,400 refugees. The sudden departure of a humanitarian organization in June resulted in the closure of the camp’s maternity and surgical wards. Pregnant women who need caesarian sections now face three-hour journeys to the nearest city. MSF has now stepped in to run the emergency room through to the end of 2026.

“Our hospital in Um Rakuba is now the only lifeline left for both refugees and the local Sudanese community,” says Fabrizio Locuratolo, MSF humanitarian affairs manager. “But the cuts here go well beyond healthcare. Food rations are shrinking and protection programs are being dismantled, pulling away the last safety nets and leaving refugees completely exposed.”

Despite the presence of around 50 NGOs in Tawila, critical gaps persist for up to 600,000 displaced people. MSF runs the only 200-bed hospital in the area and is the only organization capable of mounting a large-scale epidemic response.

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