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Insecurity Insight identified at least 706 incidents of violence against or obstruction of access to health care in Sudan since fighting started between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April 2023 and 03 February 2025. At least 182 health workers were killed and 107 arrested, while health facilities, including maternity and children's hospitals, as well as dialysis centres were reportedly damaged on 180 occasions. Pharmacies were looted and the delivery of life-saving medicines was obstructed from reaching people in need. Over two-thirds of these 706 incidents were attributed to the RSF.
At least 107 health workers were arrested or detained in 58 incidents across 13 states during the reporting period. In the first year of the conflict, most arrests or detentions occurred in Khartoum. Since then, cases have spread to other areas, with increases reported in the Darfur and Kordofan regions. Doctors, emergency medical workers, nurses, pharmacists, and surgeons were arrested or detained by the RSF and SAF, often on accusations of supporting opposing conflict parties. Staff were often beaten or threatened while in detention. Four health workers arrested by the RSF were reportedly killed while in detention, including a doctor who was arrested in late October at the Saudi Hospital in El Fasher and shot and killed the following day. Of the 107 health workers arrested, 26 were reportedly released. The status of the remaining detained health workers remains unclear.