Rhino: Follow-up – Doctors Without Borders has warned that significant cuts in international aid funding have begun to force health facilities across Sudan to close their doors and are exacerbating medicine shortages, threatening to deprive millions of Sudanese of life-saving medical care.

In a statement released Tuesday, the organization said that the ongoing war in Sudan—and the accompanying displacement, hunger, and spread of disease—is coinciding with a decline in humanitarian funding, which has led to the closure of clinics and primary health care centers, while facilities that remain open are facing an increasing shortage of medicines and medical supplies.

Doctors Without Borders added that the gap between patients and healthcare is widening as services decline, warning that its ability to keep some essential services open cannot compensate for the ongoing collapse of the Sudanese health system.

The organization’s warnings come at a time when more than 33 million people in Sudan are in need of humanitarian aid, while the international response continues to face a significant funding gap. According to Doctors Without Borders, hundreds of clinics are at risk of closing, hospitals are losing their ability to function, and medicines are disappearing from the shelves.

The organization said that the repercussions of funding cuts are not limited to routine medical services but extend to essential care that patients need to survive, in a country simultaneously facing recurring outbreaks of preventable and treatable diseases, as well as malnutrition and widespread displacement.

Last April, Doctors Without Borders warned that funding cuts were exacerbating the collapse of the health system, noting that many deaths occur due to a lack of assistance that could have been provided had the necessary resources and services been available.

The organization is calling on donors and the international community to provide urgent funding to maintain essential health services, warning that continued cuts in aid while humanitarian needs are increasing could push the Sudanese health system toward further collapse and leave even more civilians without access to treatment.