The World Health Organization (WHO) has dispatched a mission to Sudan to evaluate the country’s immunization-related disease surveillance under the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI). The field assessment begins Friday and will cover key states over a four-day period.
Ismail Al-Adani, Sudan’s Acting Director of Primary Health Care, said the evaluation will take place in the Red Sea, Northern State, River Nile, Khartoum, Gezira, White Nile, Sennar, Gedaref, Kassala, and Blue Nile. Teams will visit health facilities and reporting units to examine system performance, measure surveillance sensitivity, and provide recommendations for strengthening monitoring.
The mission will culminate in a workshop in Kassala, where findings will be presented and strategies for improvement discussed. WHO has pledged continued support in addressing weaknesses. Additional assessments will later extend to Darfur and the Kordofan states.
Al-Adani underscored that this exercise falls within the WHO’s wider regional framework, which is systematically applied across all Eastern Mediterranean member states, ensuring countries—including Sudan—align with global health monitoring standards.
