Primary Healthcare in Sudan: Challenges, Shortfalls, and How the Healthcare Workforce Is Navigating the Lack of Resources and Healthcare Planning

With the ongoing Sudanese conflict, the healthcare system deteriorated immensely. Primary healthcare particularly faces numerous challenges of adaptation, with issues such as influx of displaced people, limited supplies and funds, haphazardous planning, and absent infrastructure affecting the accessibility, operations, and quality of care afforded for the communities they serve. Despite these conditions, healthcare professionals remain committed and are able to maneuver through very challenging conditions in order to provide care. Swift interventions are imperative to alleviate the situation in Sudan to prevent collapse of the healthcare system, starting with the cease of conflict and investing in primary healthcare processes to further enable and support the efforts of healthcare professionals.