Tuesday, November 3, 2026 • The national polio response campaign concluded its first phase successfully: the Federal Ministry of Health announced at the Sudan News Agency (SUNA) briefing platform (Sunday, November 2) that 6,077,309 children were vaccinated from house to house in 106 localities in 12 states, with coverage exceeding 100% of the target, within a national campaign supported by the World Health Organization and UNICEF targeting about 11 million children with the novel oral polio vaccine type 2 to cut transmission of the variant virus that began spreading in December 2024 — Sudan confirmed in 2026 that six children had been infected with the virus and that it was detected in three sewage water samples — while the phase for the five Darfur states and West Kordofan launches during the first week of November, and routine vaccination coverage reached 90% according to the ministry (Source: Federal Ministry of Health — SUNA briefing platform, November 2, 2026; and UNICEF statement, October 28, 2026). • Sennar State topped the country's dengue fever infection rates according to meeting No. 161 of the Federal Emergency Operations Centre, which announced the recording of four deaths from the disease, so the Ministry of Health pushed a field response team to the state and designated the Tropical Diseases Hospital as a centre to receive and isolate cases, and called on the Kuwaiti Patient Aid Fund for urgent support for Sennar — at a time when cholera cases declined across the country, in contrast to rising malaria rates in Gezira, White Nile and Khartoum states (Source: Federal Emergency Operations Centre at the Federal Ministry of Health — via Al-Mashhad Al-Sudani, October 28, 2026). • A new humanitarian health bulletin documented the escalation of health emergencies in the Blue Nile region: fighting in early October in Wad El Mahi and Roseires localities displaced about 6,800 people within four days, and Um Darfa Hospital went out of service on October 11, while the comprehensive mobile clinic of the Sudanese American Physicians Association (SAPA) recorded 3,185 medical consultations — more than 99% of those who received them were displaced people — topped by malaria at 57% of consultations at the peak of its transmission season, with the share of respiratory diseases doubling and diarrhoeas rising, especially among children under five, and SAPA remains, according to its field team, the only health service provider currently working in the Azaza area (Source: Humanitarian health and nutrition bulletin on Blue Nile — via ReliefWeb, November 2, 2026). • A new Save the Children survey in Central Jebel Marra in Central Darfur State (which included 581 families) revealed that 57% of the children examined suffer from chronic malnutrition (stunting) and that 15% — about one child in every six — suffer from acute malnutrition, while 43% of the children were ill in the two weeks preceding the survey and 69% of families relied on unsafe or untreated water, and the organisation warned of the combination of conflict and El Niño-linked drought deepening the hunger crisis, calling for an integrated response including food, nutrition, health care and clean water (Source: Save the Children, October 28, 2026 — via ReliefWeb). • The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre launched a project to rehabilitate six government hospitals and establish three oxygen stations in Sudan, directly benefiting three million people, within the third phase of the programme to rehabilitate government hospitals with modern medical devices and equipment — the hospitals included Ahmed Qasim for Heart Diseases and Kidney Transplantation and Bashair University Hospital in Khartoum, El Hasahisa and El Managil teaching hospitals in Gezira, El Obeid Teaching Hospital in North Kordofan, and Al-Ashi Specialised Hospital for Bones in the Red Sea, with oxygen stations at Ahmed Qasim Hospital and the Saudi Hospital for Women and Obstetrics and Al-Buluk Specialised Hospital for Children in Khartoum, raising the total rehabilitated by the programme so far to 26 hospitals in 10 states and 9 oxygen stations (Source: Saudi Press Agency (SPA), November 1, 2026 — via Fana News). • After three years of suspension, the Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery in Khartoum resumed receiving international referrals: four patients from Burundi and Eritrea arrived at the centre of the Italian EMERGENCY organisation, in the first international referrals since transfers were suspended with the outbreak of war in 2023, within a gradual reactivation of the regional programme that allows patients from across Africa to receive free specialised cardiac treatment — the centre continued throughout the years of conflict to provide life-saving cardiac care to patients inside Sudan despite the challenges of war (Source: EMERGENCY organisation, November 2, 2026).

— Editorial Team