Yale Humanitarian Research Lab
This report is a study of hospital infrastructure damage in Khartoum State, Sudan using a cross-referenced analysis of local expert insights, open source data, and satellite imagery across 87 hospitals. The Sudanese American Physicians Association (SAPA) and the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (Yale HRL) collaborated to identify widespread damage to hospitals in Khartoum State since the onset of the current conflict. SAPA provides medical aid and healthcare services to hospitals and clinics across Sudan, primarily in Khartoum State. Hospital damage was assessed using SAPA local experts and open source data as well as satellite imagery from 15 April 2023 to 26 August 2024. Nearly half (47%, or 41 out of 87) of hospitals in Khartoum State were damaged during the first 500 days of conflict. The damage to these hospitals affects at least one-third (711,373 out of 2,134,247) of the patient population in Khartoum State.2 Approximately half of the damaged hospitals (48.7%, or 20 out of 41) also provided primary healthcare services. The widespread, indiscriminate, and persistent nature of attacks on this critical infrastructure presents short- and long-term risks to population health.
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