Barbara Plett-Usher
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155 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 8 Sep
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Last year the US shut down its maiden aid agencies.
So what we're seeing right now is the continuing impact of that because the existing grants that USAID had given to organizations operating in Sudan ran out in June.
Those organizations have not been able to find alternative funding, so they've had to pull out.
And where it comes to health, that means local clinics have either shut down or severely downsized, and that has put more pressure on hospitals.
MSF, the medical charity, gave specific examples.
For example, they said in a refugee camp in the eastern state of Gaderaf, the uh maternity and surgical wards have been closed.
In another refugee camp in the same state, they say
We said that the eight organizations are down to ten from a high of thirty five five years ago.
In central Darfur, forty five health centers have lost support.
Many of them have closed.
One of them in particular, a large one, has stayed open, but with vastly reduced services, no vaccinations, only able to see forty patients a day down from two hundred, and so this is compounding an already quite severe health crisis in Sudan.
Yes, definitely, and that is the warning.
Now, I mean we are talking about specific funding withdrawals and program closures at a local level.
There is still money coming in.
The Americans are still the largest donor to Sudan.
Some European governments are prioritizing their Sudan funding even though they are cutting their international assistance overall.
But already thirty-seven percent of Sudan's health care facilities are estimated to be out of service.
And now with these local clinics being shut that's putting extra pressure on hospitals that are still open.
MSF is calling them at the breaking point.
You're right.
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