Sudan is Between Disease Outbreaks and the Failure of the “Government of Hope”!
(Translated)
Al-Rayah Newspaper - Issue 567 - 01/10/2025 CE
By: Ustadh Ghada Abdel Jabbar (Umm Awab) – Wilayah Sudan

Sudan’s Health Minister, Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim, said that tens of thousands of Sudanese have been infected with dengue fever and other diseases, while seasonal rains burden infrastructure and hospitals damaged by the conflict. The Ministry of Health reported that it recorded more than 2,000 cases of dengue fever nationwide in the past week. The Minister of Health stated that insecticide spraying systems have been damaged, and that the continuation of the war for more than two years has had a direct impact on the environment and health, as well as the accumulation of garbage and waste and the destruction of water sources, creating a new reality in which mosquitoes are widespread. He explained that the reduction in international aid has hampered the ability to treat these diseases, explaining that the cost of combating several epidemics that broke out simultaneously amounts to approximately $39 million. (Reuters, September 24, 2025).

The deteriorating health conditions, the spread of deadly diseases, the financial hardship, the lack of medicines, hospitals and health services, and the crushing high prices that have left emaciated bodies, exhausted by hunger and malnutrition, where no home in Khartoum is without an infected person, where fever has become a heavy guest that imposes the test of survival on everyone, in a collapsed health reality. Matters worsen in the fall with its dangers that are difficult for the government to avoid in a state of stability, so how about in a state of war where no effort is made in the field of environmental sanitation and combating disease vectors every year? However, this year of ours is unlike any other year because of the syndrome of war, poverty and disease that has combined to affect people, and they have no one but Allah (swt) to whom they turn.

As for the Ministry of Health in the “Government of Hope,” it is helpless and utterly incompetent in these tragic circumstances. The Minister of Health has been declaring on satellite channels his complete incompetence, all he can do is count and record the sick and the dead, beg abroad, and point out the inadequacy of external support.

The complete failure to sanitize the environment and eliminate disease vectors, such as mosquitoes and flies, resulting in these huge numbers of patients, all demonstrates that the state is not fulfilling even the slightest degree of responsibility towards the people in preparing the environment in a practical and serious manner.

The mosquitoes that transmit the disease breed in water in the streets, until it dries up on its own, including inside homes; pools of water are found all over the country! With drinking water cut off, people have resorted to storing water at home after fighting in the capital destroyed electricity and water networks and all services. Waste is spreading, mosquitoes are increasing in number and variety, and medicines and painkillers are unavailable and even sold on the black market, their official price not exceeding 3,000 Sudanese pounds!

However, they are being sold for 15,000, and people don’t have the money. This scene demonstrates the extent of the state’s negligence and irresponsibility, which has accustomed us to thinking of solutions only for which it spares no effort. People are merely numbers to be counted and the state has not taken any action to address the situation. Even foreign support for medicines has been corrupted, and it has become normal to find a medicine labeled “free” only to be sold at exorbitant prices.

The rate of disease and death is increasing, and the Ministry of Health has abandoned its work, and is now limited to issuing warnings and warnings. It warns and alerts people of the spread of epidemics, but as for treating and controlling them, the state imagines it has nothing to do with them!

All our suffering has one cause, the state’s failure to fulfill its Shariah obligation as a welfare state. This is a result of the adoption of a greedy, self-interested capitalist system that knows no human or moral value, no mercy, and no care. This greedy capitalist system, which our rulers also govern by, views healthcare as a material cost that does not concern it. Thus, treatment and medication are for those who can afford them, not for those who need them! Even if the state takes care of them, it buys and sells the health of the country’s people, through health insurance companies, which are not for everyone, but for those who can afford the monthly subscription. Here, uncounted numbers fall into neglect; their illness, death, or life do not matter to the state.

As for profit-making investment hospitals, which trade in human health and lives in exchange for increased profits and market control, they have competed with public, state hospitals, which have become useless.

The matter is so clear that it does not need much evidence. No harm befalls us without capitalism standing behind it, and in front of it. If we want to recover from this cancerous capitalist system, we must pay the price by working hard to change and find a genuine alternative, the system of the Lord of the Worlds, Allah (swt), which He (swt) revealed as a mercy to all people. It is the Khilafah (Caliphate) system that built hospitals when the West was in its Dark Ages and guaranteed free medical treatment to everyone, regardless of gender, race or religion.

The Khilafah State will set global standards for healthcare and medical research, free from utilitarian and profit-driven values. It will establish a healthcare system that meets the medical needs of all citizens, regardless of race, religion, or school of thought. Predatory intellectual property and patent laws will be abolished in the medical field, as well as in all other areas of life. This will spark an intellectual revolution in medical research, as well as provide affordable medicines. This is just the tip of the iceberg of the Khilafah’s virtues. For this, let those who work for it, strive, for tomorrow is near.