{"id":240547,"date":"2026-08-07T08:01:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-south-darfur-hospital-faces-shutdown-after-last-doctor-leaves\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T08:01:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:01:52","slug":"sudan-south-darfur-hospital-faces-shutdown-after-last-doctor-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-south-darfur-hospital-faces-shutdown-after-last-doctor-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: South Darfur Hospital Faces Shutdown After Last Doctor Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Rehed El Bardi Locality \u2014 <strong>The only doctor serving Rehed El Bardi Hospital has left the area to pursue postgraduate studies, putting essential healthcare at risk for thousands of residents in the locality and neighbouring areas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">The hospital has operated with limited medicines, equipment and medical staff since the outbreak of Sudan&#8217;s war in April 2023. The doctor&#8217;s departure has now left the facility without a permanent physician, prompting local authorities, community leaders and activists to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608070009.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rehed El Bardi Locality \u2014 The only doctor serving Rehed El Bardi Hospital has left the area to pursue postgraduate studies, putting essential healthcare at risk for thousands of residents in the locality and neighbouring areas. The hospital has operated with limited medicines, equipment and medical staff since the outbreak of Sudan&#8217;s war in April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[5432,258,256,2269,19813,5080,6362,9647,257,5069,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-240547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-shutdown","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-darfur","tag-doctor","tag-faces","tag-hospital","tag-leaves","tag-news","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}