More than 40 hospitals, 244 health centres resume services in Sudan's capital

More than 40 hospitals and 244 health centres have returned to service in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, after being damaged or destroyed during the country’s conflict, a local medical group said on Wednesday.

The Sudan Doctors Network said in a statement that the facilities are operating out of 120 hospitals and 288 health centres damaged amid fighting in Khartoum between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

The network said Khartoum’s health sector suffered severe losses during the war’s first year, with about 70% of hospitals going fully or partially out of service due to shelling, looting and shortages of supplies.

More than 120 public and private hospitals were looted, it said, further degrading health services and sharply reducing the capital’s capacity to meet growing medical needs.

Heavy damage

The statement said key reference infrastructure sustained heavy damage, including the National Public Health Laboratory and the Central Blood Bank, while major referral centres across the state were knocked out of service.

That disruption directly affected diagnostic services and blood transfusions, increasing the risk of treatment delays, especially for critical and emergency cases, it added.

In May 2025, the Sudanese army said that it had cleared Khartoum State of the RSF.

On Thursday, the network said the National Medical Supplies Fund sustained losses exceeding $500 million during the war, including the destruction and looting of warehouses stocked with medicines and medical consumables, the loss of transport fleets, and damage to administrative offices.

Devastating war

Despite those losses, the report noted partial improvement in medical supplies in 2025, with drug coverage reaching 80% and medicine availability at 88%, compared with less than 40% the previous year.

Of Sudan’s 18 states, the RSF controls all five states of the Darfur region in the west, except for some northern parts of North Darfur that remain under army control. The army, in turn, holds most areas of the remaining 13 states in the south, north, east, and centre, including Khartoum.

The conflict between the Sudanese army and the RSF, which began in April 2023, has since killed thousands of people and displaced millions of others.