Friday, January 17, 2020

Rebuilding Sudan's Health System

The Lancet published on 18 January 2020 an article titled "Rebuilding Sudan's Health System: Opportunities and Challenges" by George Wharton, Omar E. Ali, Siddiq Khalil, Hatim Yagoub, and Elias Mossialos.

The new government in Sudan has inherited a health system that is ill-equipped to respond to growing and neglected needs, including depletion of medical staff following a brain drain. The authors argue the obvious solution is the introduction of a single-payer national health service.