Bulletin #102: Gaza, Sudan, Ghana: health workers face war and neglect

People's Health Dispatch

19 Jun 2025 • 3 min read

This fortnight

As Israel’s genocide in Gaza continues, Palestinian health authorities are once again calling for urgent protection of what remains of the territory’s decimated healthcare system. In recent weeks, renewed attacks and forced displacement orders have further eroded access to care. With food and medicine still largely unavailable, and people being killed while queuing for humanitarian aid, Gaza’s population faces worsening starvation and outbreaks of communicable disease.

In Sudan, a cholera outbreak has struck the capital, Khartoum, amid an ongoing three-year armed conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces. By late May, health workers were warning that the healthcare system was on the brink of disaster, with shortages of supplies, water, and electricity hampering efforts to contain the outbreak and other health conditions.

In Ghana, nurses have suspended their nearly two-week strike following government promises to improve working conditions. The suspension comes after the government signaled it would revisit agreements that had previously gone unfulfilled.

Meanwhile in the United States, the Trump administration continues its campaign of anti-people budget cuts, slashing funds for public healthcare programs. However, growing public backlash is beginning to put pressure on right-wing senators backing these measures.