Save the Children is providing life-saving medical care and support to health facilities, including trauma care and the delivery of essential medical supplies to communities ravaged by conflict and disease, offering both emergency interventions and routine health care. Additionally, our nutrition programmes actively prevent and combat malnutrition, ensuring healthy development for children affected by the humanitarian crisis.
Impact of Conflict
- Rapid deterioration leaves 21.2 million people in high levels of acute food insecurity. Acute food insecurity has more than tripled since the pre-conflict period, affecting over half the population.
- The war has significantly disrupted people’s livelihoods and devastated basic infrastructure and services, with an estimated 80 percent of health facilities damaged.
- There have been around 705 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care recorded, but probably the number is a lot higher.
- A staggering 3 million children under five years are estimated to be acutely malnourished in 2026.
- 1 in 4 displaced households (25%) who needed healthcare could not access treatment.
Our Response
We are running mobile health clinics in areas hosting displaced families and supporting health facilities that remain operational.
We are also responding to disease outbreaks, including cholera, by treating patients, supporting health facilities, and working with communities to reduce the spread of disease.
Skilled midwives, vaccination drives, and mental health support are making a lasting impact on the well-being of children and families across Sudan.
We are screening children for malnutrition, providing therapeutic nutrition treatment for those who are severely malnourished, and supporting mothers with infant and young child feeding, including in displacement sites and hard-to-reach areas.
Baby Sara* was the first baby born at our health clinic in an IDP Reception Centre. Her mum, Asma arrived at an IDP Reception Centre in Gedaref after a roughly two-month long journey on foot from Sinja, the capital of Sennar State, while heavily pregnant. Asma left Sinja due to the escalation of attacks in the city in June 2024, which forced over 400,000 people to flee to Gedaref. Mussab Hassona / Save the Children