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What it takes to send 50 doctors to Sudan
On 1 November, In Sha Allah, our team goes back to Sudan: surgeons, anaesthetists, GPs and specialists, giving their own time for our biggest deployment yet. This is who is going, in their own words, what our last team found in April, and what it takes to get them there.
Who is going
The team on this medical mission to Sudan is surgeons and anaesthetists, GPs and emergency doctors, specialists from orthopaedics to psychiatry, and the logistics staff who keep a deployment running. They come from the UK, France and beyond. Before they leave, we asked some of them to tell you who they are.
Dr Syed Mohsin
Orthopaedic surgeon
Dr Abdelilah El Hayri
Anesthesiologist
Dr Ali Jaffery
Anaesthetist
Dr Asif Malik
GP
Dr Israr Khan
GP
Dr Usman Rafiq
GP
Dr Mustafa Shalabi
Consultant psychiatrist
Dr Latif
Dr Hubbard
Tufik Benhamida
Dr Syed Mohsin is an orthopaedic surgeon in the NHS. He has volunteered in Sudan before, and he is going back to help patients regain their mobility and independence.
“My faith inspires me to serve with compassion. Please do remember our team and patients in your prayers.”
Dr Syed Mohsin, orthopaedic surgeon.
Dr Rehab Khalifa, an Egyptian-British consultant psychiatrist working in England, is looking forward to “supporting my colleagues and the people of Sudan during this unfolding crisis that has very little international focus.” Dr Abdelilah El Hayri, an anaesthesiologist from France, put it in a single sentence: “I’m going to help and save people of Sudan.”
They go alongside Dr Israr Khan, a GP in Walsall; Dr Usman Rafiq, a GP from Birmingham; Dr Asif Malik, a GP based in Qatar and the UK; anaesthetist Dr Ali Jaffery; consultant psychiatrist Dr Mustafa Shalabi; Dr Latif, Dr Hubbard, Tufik Benhamida and the rest of the team.
What April looked like
In April, 18 of our doctors worked in Sudan’s Northern State. They treated gunshot wounds, spinal injuries and fractures that had healed badly, and ran clinics for families who had been forced from their homes.
In June, the World Health Organization’s emergency medical teams and Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Health wrote to thank them for “providing essential medical care, supporting local health services, and strengthening emergency response in the Northern State.” The letter also says: “You chose to stand beside communities in need, bringing not only your medical expertise but also hope, compassion, and humanity.”
The road
Reaching patients is part of the work. In April it meant a desert road, a wheel that broke in the dark and was fixed with four bolts instead of six, and a bridge into Khartoum still scarred by the war.
We won’t say how this team travels or where they stay, for their safety. What they film on the ground will come to you once they have moved on.
What it takes
The doctors give their own time. What can’t be given that way is everything the work uses: the consumables and implants for each operation, the medicines, the care for each patient, and the training the team leaves behind with Sudan’s own doctors and health workers, who carry on when we leave.
By April this year, the WHO counted 37% of Sudan’s health facilities as not working (World Health Organization, 2026). A team going into hospitals like these has to bring what it will use.
The doctors give their own time, and they know what they are going into. They have read this week’s news like everyone else. They are still going.
Help send them
“Your donations, your support is most required and needed for this very critical situation,” says Dr Rehab Khalifa.
Our Doctors Deployment Support Project pays for patient care, consumables, implants and training, so our doctors can give what only they can: their skill and their time. You can give to it as Zakah, Sadaqah or Lillah. And whatever you give, send them with your duas.
References
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- World Health Organization (2026) After three years of conflict, Sudan faces a deeper health crisis. News release, 14 April. Geneva: WHO. Available at: https://www.who.int/news/item/14-04-2026-after-three-years-of-conflict–sudan-faces-a-deeper-health-crisis (Accessed: 26 October 2026).
- World Health Organization Emergency Medical Teams and Federal Ministry of Health, Sudan (2026) Letter to Doctors of Rahman, 15 June. Unpublished.
