The World Health Organization said Friday that 37% of health facilities in Sudan were out of service in 2026.
The figure was given during a news conference by Altaf Musani, director of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Interventions Department, at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva, where he addressed the impact of attacks on health care in 29 countries and territories.
Musani said the organization recorded more than 900 attacks on health care in those areas between January and August 2026, killing at least 900 people and injuring more than 1,400 others, at a rate of more than four attacks per day.
“Across Sudan’s 18 states, 37% of health facilities remain non-functional. Health facilities, ambulances, patients and health workers have been repeatedly attacked, further reducing access to health care, particularly in conflict-affected areas where hospitals are only partially functioning or have closed due to the destruction of facilities and equipment,” the organization said in a separate statement.