Overview
- MSF and other aid groups issued the warning on Tuesday after reporting that roughly 37% of health facilities in Sudan are nonoperational and the UN response plan is only partly funded.
- The International Rescue Committee says funding cuts have forced the closure of 36 IRC-supported sites this year, cutting off care for about 473,700 people and leaving some clinics with only short-term bridge funding through the end of September.
- Aid groups link recent exits to the end of USAID grants in June and reductions in European funding, which depleted medicines, closed frontline services, and pushed patients to travel farther for care.
- Health workers are overwhelmed as disease outbreaks grow: MSF reported a 22.5% rise in admissions in central Darfur in early 2026 and warned that measles, cholera, and malaria are intensifying in multiple regions.
- The collapse of services compounds war-driven needs dating to April 2023, when fighting between the army and the RSF killed tens of thousands and displaced millions, leaving camps such as Um Rakuba dependent on only a handful of agencies.