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Sudan: NGO expulsions leave significant healthcare gaps in Darfur

NAIROBI: The expulsion of 13 international NGOs (INGOs) operating in the western Sudan region of Darfur has left gaps in health coverage, according to the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) as 12 of them provided health and nutrition services to about 1.1 million people.

5 May 2009

Through mobile clinics, hospitals and primary healthcare (PHC) facilities, the organisations had been providing essential services ranging from referrals for complicated and life-threatening cases to surveillance of epidemics, states the WHO March-April health bulletin.

In North Darfur, reproductive healthcare services have been interrupted after the closure of a PHC facility; the activities of other health facilities, serving at least 200,000 people, have also been curtailed.

Read the full article on IRIN.