Capacity development workshop for hospital managers in Sudan

5 May 2017 – The Federal Ministry of Health, in collaboration with WHO organized a capacity development workshop for hospital managers in Sudan between 18 and 25 April 2017 aiming to provide hospital managers with an understanding of hospital management issues that will help them to improve service delivery and enhance their knowledge and skills to strengthen hospital performance and moving towards universal health coverage.

Sudan: first to introduce life-saving meningitis A vaccine into routine immunization

About 720 000 children under one year of age in Sudan will be vaccinated this year against meningitis through the routine immunization system.

Khartoum, 28 July 2016 – Children in Sudan are set to become the first in the meningitis belt to benefit from the introduction of meningitis A vaccine into a routine immunization programme. The vaccine, previously only used in immunization campaigns across Africa, will be administered to children as part of the country's routine schedule.