Tuesday, September 22, 2026 • Sennar Teaching Hospital regained its ability to provide critical care to patients after the World Health Organization, through the World Bank-funded SHARE project, restarted the intensive care unit: repairing 5 monitoring devices, providing oxygen concentrators, and strengthening infection control systems and training — the unit began operating in March 2026 with a planned capacity of 9 beds (5 currently functioning) and received 27 critically ill patients in its first month (Source: World Health Organization — via ReliefWeb, September 21, 2026). • MSF (Doctors Without Borders) warned that international funding cuts are forcing many clinics to close: 45 public health centers in Central Darfur stopped receiving support in May, and maternity and surgery wards at Tandba camp in Gedaref were closed, so pregnant women who need a caesarean section now travel three hours to reach the nearest city, and daily visits to Al-Hamidiya center fell from 200 to 40 — the organization called on leaders at the UN General Assembly to protect funding for essential health services (Source: MSF (Doctors Without Borders), statement September 8, 2026 — via ReliefWeb). • The World Health Organization warned of a new cholera outbreak hitting Darfur and Kordofan: more than 1,330 confirmed cases and 114 deaths — the organization prepared health supplies sufficient for more than 25,000 people in El Obeid, and delivered 8.5 tons of medical supplies to Kadugli and Dilling as part of a joint inter-agency convoy (the organization's first shipment to reach Kadugli since December 2024) (Source: Briefing by Dr. Shible Sahbani of the World Health Organization to journalists in Geneva — citing The Eastleigh Voice, September 21, 2026). • The WHO Representative in Sudan, Dr. Abdel Nasser Abu Bakr, visited (September 6) three of Khartoum's damaged referral hospitals — Khartoum Teaching Hospital, the Eye Hospital and the Dental Hospital — to assess the scale of destruction and discuss priorities for restoring services: operating rooms destroyed, X-ray devices missing and entire wards out of service, while the Khartoum State Ministry of Health has begun restoration and rehabilitation work (Source: WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, September 7, 2026). • MSF (Doctors Without Borders) launched an emergency intervention in Abu Jubeiha in South Kordofan (June 2026): providing safe water to about 900 families at the Al-Safa displacement site, supporting a vaccination campaign with the Ministry of Health that vaccinated more than 2,500 children (measles and delayed routine vaccinations), in addition to supporting emergency services at Abu Jubeiha Hospital — in response to escalating needs with the rainy season and risks of disease outbreaks (Source: MSF (Doctors Without Borders) — via ReliefWeb, September 1, 2026). • The Preliminary Committee of the Sudanese Doctors' Union presented, at the 63rd session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, its assessment of the health situation: destruction of major laboratories (the National Public Health Laboratory, the University of Khartoum Laboratory and Al-Daman Hospital Laboratory), and water contamination and poor sanitation raising disease risks — the report also documented malnutrition among about 6,200 children in Al-Malha in North Darfur (1,500 of them severe) and 1,350 pregnant and breastfeeding women (Source: Preliminary Committee of the Sudanese Doctors' Union — citing ImNews, September 20, 2026).
— Health Desk
