In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sudan, Minister of Health Akram Eltoum and WHO called for support to the Ministry of Health in fighting CoVID-19 outbreak. In efforts to support the Federal Ministry of Health in COVID-response, the international NGO Save the Children (SC) provided assistance through the rehabilitation of the isolation center at Khartoum Teaching Hospital.

“Save the Children teams are working non-stop to support the Ministry of Health in their efforts to fight the pandemic,” said Arshad Malik, Save the Children Director in Sudan. “Although children are not at high risk by the pandemic, but if their families, care givers or communities were affected, it will put them at high risk for exploitation and poverty.”

Other assistance provided to Khartoum teaching hospital includes the rehabilitation of the building; ensuring a 110 bed capacity in the hospital, with possibility of adding 40 more beds; repairing 14 ventilators, oxygen concentrators, suction machines and other medical equipment; provided 2,500 personal protection equipment (PPE) for staff; and supporting FMoH with incentives of 90 staff working in the hospital as well as a dedicated nutritionist to ensure nutritional needs of children and pregnant lactating mothers are met. In addition, Save the Children will provide FMoH with technical support to manage the facility, which is the only facility in country that has separate children and female wards.