Khartoum / Al-Hamish’s voice – August 26, 2025. The Sudanese Doctors’ Network announced in an official statement that the death toll among medical personnel since the war broke out in April 2023 has risen to 231, with more than 500 wounded and at least 59 missing, whose fate remains unknown.
The network stressed that the systematic and repeated targeting of medical staff constitutes a grave violation of international humanitarian law, noting that the continuation of these attacks will lead to the loss of a fundamental pillar of the country’s healthcare sector.
It added that assaults on doctors, hospitals, and relief teams not only threaten the lives of medical workers but also endanger the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians, at a time when the health system is on the brink of total collapse.
The network held the warring parties fully responsible for these violations and called on the international community and human rights organizations to take urgent action to stop the ongoing attacks on medical staff and healthcare facilities.
The war in Sudan erupted in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, plunging the country into its worst humanitarian crisis on record. According to United Nations reports, more than 30 million people are now in urgent need of assistance. Since the conflict began, the health sector has faced near-total collapse due to repeated hospital bombings, critical shortages of medical supplies, and direct targeting of doctors and relief workers.
