{"id":884664,"date":"2026-09-08T17:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/884664\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T17:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:02:13","slug":"sudans-healthcare-system-on-brink-of-collapse-msf-warns-health-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/884664\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan\u2019s healthcare system on brink of collapse, MSF warns | Health News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">More than a third of Sudan\u2019s health facilities are nonoperational as aid cuts deepen humanitarian crisis, medical charity says.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"avatar\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/author\/al_jazeera_staff_150119130629458\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788886933_723_2017-06-08T131939Z_1189275883_RC11B0FE7F20_RTRMADP_3_GULF-QATAR-JAZEERA-1714943623.jpg\"   aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published On 8 Sep 20268 Sep 2026<\/p>\n<p>War-torn Sudan\u2019s healthcare system is facing a deep crisis as international aid funding has dwindled, cutting millions off from essential services, Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, has warned.<\/p>\n<p>The medical charity said on Tuesday that a greater number of patients are being pushed towards a shrinking number of facilities, even as certain regions have seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/9\/5\/five-killed-in-sudans-kordofan-in-attack-by-rebel-group\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">intensifying violence and displacement<\/a> with the country\u2019s war escalating.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 2 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>It urged governments at the United Nations General Assembly, which is currently convening, to protect health funding and provide stopgap financing for facilities at risk of closing.<\/p>\n<p>About 37 percent of Sudan\u2019s health facilities are out of service and the UN\u2019s response plan for the country is only 41 percent funded, MSF said, with some 19.5 million people facing crisis levels of hunger earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Ibrahim, head of MSF in Sudan, says the organisation has been overwhelmed as funding for other aid efforts disappears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonors must protect essential health services and provide sustained, flexible funding to organisations that depend on it,\u201d he says in the report.<\/p>\n<p>Fabrizio Locuratolo, humanitarian affairs manager at an MSF hospital in Um Rakuba, says the cuts extend beyond healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFood rations are shrinking and protection programmes are being dismantled, pulling away the last safety nets and leaving refugees completely exposed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>MSF linked the closures to the shutdown of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), whose Sudan grants ended in June, and a significant reduction of aid from European institutions year-over-year.<\/p>\n<p>The report notes that the world is witnessing \u201chistoric international aid funding cuts by governments\u201d, with global humanitarian aid reduced by 35.8 percent since last year.<\/p>\n<p>The war between Sudan\u2019s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed at least 59,000 people and displaced about 14 million since it erupted in April 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than a third of Sudan\u2019s health facilities are nonoperational as aid cuts deepen humanitarian crisis, medical 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