#Sheet: History of Medical Services in Sudan

HISTORY OF MEDICAL SERVICES - SUDAN

History of medical services in Sudan (1898-2015)

Content

First Phase (Prior to 1898):  

Second Phase (After 1898): A- The period 1898 - 1925 B- The period 1926 - 1950    C- The period 1951 - 1970 D- The period 1971 - 2015

First Phase prior to 1898 

- Early Epidemic Diseases: - Cholera  - Smallpox - Fevers  - Environmental sanitation problems - Severe famines - Arab traditional medicine - African Superstition  - Sudan remained free of the plague

Turco-Egyptian Medical Adminstartion (1820-1885)   Limited coverage and quality  Dealing mainly with government officials and military personnel  Establishment of treatment centers and national environmental sanitation National vaccination campaigns against Smallpox Training of auxiliary health personnel 

A-The period 1898 - 1925 Department of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium the first attempt to provide medical care to general population Growth of medical department hampered by budgetary limitations and interrupted by outbreak of first world ware It laid down the foundation of modern health services and allowed their strengthening  Training of healthw rokers started after the war Role of missions (Christian medical mission) provision of medical health services remote areas Establishment of Medical Research Organization 1903  

Second Phase after 1898

Welcome tropical research laboratories 1903 Systematic study and investigation of tropical diseases Sleeping sickness, Smallpox, Cerebrospinal Meningitis & Relapsing fever. Malaria in connection with Gazira & pump irrigation schemes  Period of creation of basic health structure Extension of health services to RURAL areas 

Second Phase after 1898

Second Phase after 1898

The period 1925 - 1950 Consolidatio  and expanision of medical serices  Gradual evolutiion of medical services as a full time government Department Transfer of medical leadership during transitional period from colonial status to independence  Kitchener School of Medicine first medical school in Tropical Africa (1924) By 1951 graduates of Kitchener School of Medicine constitued >60% of doctors in Sudan  Medical assistants school Port Sudan 1918  First village Midwifery school Omdurman 1921

Second Phase after 1898

Ministry of Health Established in the year 1948 Headed by the first Sudanese Minister of Health Dr.Ali Badri (graduated from Kitchener school of medicine first batch) A ten year plan was developed for provision of health services covering the period 1951- 1960

Second Phase after 1898

Khartoum Faculty of Medicine  On the year 1951 Kitchener school of medicine was named Khartoum faculty of Medicine One of the faculties of University of Khartoum

Second Phase after 1898

First Sudanese Parliament & Goverment 1953 - The election of the first Sudanese Parliament Appointment of the first sudanese government  Sudan independence January first 1956

Second Phase after 1898

The period 1951-1970 Rapid advance in development of the medical services Plans for control of epidemic and endemic diseases  Commujnity oriented public health work

Second Phase after 1898

The period 1971 - 2013 Adoption of Primary Health as a strategy for deliver of health services (1976) Development of national hjealth programs, Malaria, Nutrition, Immunization, etc. Implementation of District Health system for provision of health srevies at locality level Fight against major diseas e,.g. Poliomelitis, Measles, Neonatal Tetanus & Malari