HEALTH SECTOR FACT SHEET

5.75 million people in Sudan are in need of basic health services. The number of health personnel in is five times lower than the WHO benchmark.

People 1000 Health WHO Professionals Management of health facilities in Darfur Benchmark = 2.3 Functioning facilities, 2012 [2] Darfur Managed by facilities % 1 NGOs 281 39 714 2 SMOH 433 61 facilities

= Total 714 100 [1] Source: WHO (2012)

WHAT? HUMANITARIAN FOCUS

• • Inadequate and insufficient access to primary Increase the access and utilization, and strengthen health care and referral services for 5.75 million the quality of, basic health care services, including IDPs, returnees, refugees and people from treatment of common diseases, provision of drugs, affected host communities in Darfur, South immunization, emergency obstetric and neonatal Kordofan, and and east Sudan. care and nutrition, from 45%to 60% in target areas. Improve first-referral health care services • High morbidity and mortality from by promoting equity in health service coverage communicable and vaccine-preventable and outcomes. diseases, particularly in conflict-affected • regions. Strengthen national, state and local capacity to predict, detect, prepare and respond to • A low health workforce density, particularly in communicable disease outbreaks and rural areas, with 1.2 health professionals per emergencies, through the establishment of 1,000 people in Sudan and 0.4 and 0.6 per emergency preparedness and response plans in 1,000 people in Darfur and the border areas, as 11 states and the training of 100 rapid response compared to the WHO benchmark of 2.3 per teams. 1,000 population. • Increase the availability of quality maternal and child health services through the provision of emergency obstetric care supplies, increased numbers of trained health personnel and midwives and raising immunization services in target states. • Mainstream the cross-cutting themes of preparedness, capacity building, gender, environment, early recovery and HIV/AIDS into all health programmes.

FROM THE FIELD February 2013. East Darfur: Mubadiron is a Sudanese non- governmental organization that SECTOR INFORMATION A woman awaits the birth of her has managed area clinics since grandchild outside Mubadiron's 2010, with partial support from Government lead: Ministry of Health (MoH) clinic in Khor Omer, East Darfur. the Common Humanitarian The child's father waits with a Fund. They work closely with Lead agency: World Health friend in the background. international NGOs as well as Organization (WHO) While 80% of Sudan’s the government Ministry of 33 population has access to Health to manage Primary Projects: primary healthcare services, Health Care Centers throughout Beneficiaries: 3,937,322 Darfur. This particular project there are large disparities Funds requested: $75,383,641 between different states. In provides general clinical Contact: parts of Darfur, less than 60% of services, child health and households have such access – nutrition services, and diagnosis Dr. Jamshed Tanoli (WHO) mainly due to security concerns and treatment of communicable [email protected] about travelling to the nearest disease to about 120,000 (+249) 912 167 654 facility, but also sometimes due people. to the sheer distance required to Maternal and reproductive travel there. Moreover, staff health services, including shortages and poor emergency obstetric care, infrastructure mean that about management and prevention of 28% of existing primary health STIS, are a core component of care facilities in Darfur are not the primary health care functional – and even those that provided. are, may proper lack medical equipment or sufficient staff. (Photo: OCHA)