Dried-up funding is forcing medical facilities to close, collapsing an already fragile health system and overwhelming remaining hospitals.
As world leaders gather at the UN General Assembly, they must maintain support for essential health services in wartime Sudan, where many medical facilities are closing for lack of funding.
“War is driving Sudan’s needs; funding cuts are shrinking the response,” said Muhammad Ibrahim, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) head of mission 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.”
The US government announced the closure of USAID in 2025, and its funding to many organizations working in Sudan ended in June 2026. Many health care providers have been unable to find alternative funding to continue providing services, and health facilities are closing as a result. For patients, this means enduring long, dangerous journeys just to receive treatment wherever they can. The few hospitals that are still operational are absorbing the overflow.
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.
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