Where we work | Sudan

Three decades of combating preventable blindness in Sudan.

Since 1993, our camps and hospitals have served communities from Khartoum to Port Sudan. Ten permanent hospitals, local doctors, and care that has continued through the hardest of years.

1993service since
581Mobile Clinics Held
10Hospitals Across Sudan
15.3M+Outpatient Visits
1.18M+Surgeries Performed

Our presence

Ten hospitals. One promise.

Sudan is our largest hospital network anywhere in the world. These doors have been open for decades, staffed by Sudanese doctors and nurses.

Largest site

Makkah Eye Complex

Khartoum
5.44MOutpatient visits
568KSurgeries

Opened June 1995.

Makkah Eye Hospital

Omdurman
3.25MOutpatient visits
161KSurgeries

Opened May 2000.

Makkah Eye Hospital

Elkabila
1.81MOutpatient visits
76KSurgeries

Opened May 2007.

Makkah Eye Hospital

Madani
1.69MOutpatient visits
134KSurgeries

Opened December 2006.

Makkah Eye Hospital

Port Sudan
1.15MOutpatient visits
73KSurgeries

Opened May 2003.

Makkah Eye Hospital

Kassala
668KOutpatient visits
47KSurgeries

Opened July 2011.

Makkah Eye Hospital

Damazeen
526KOutpatient visits
36KSurgeries

Opened November 2009.

Makkah Eye Hospital

Nyala
504KOutpatient visits
48KSurgeries

Opened May 2004. Serving Darfur.

Makkah Eye Hospital

Atbara
227KOutpatient visits
29KSurgeries

Opened February 2024. Our newest site.

Makkah Eye Hospital

Dabak
30KOutpatient visits
3.1KSurgeries

Opened November 2016.

Growth you can verify

Even through conflict, Sudan sees more.

People reached each year through our three services in Sudan.

2023
2024
2025

Share of everyone reached, as of the latest annual report.

A life changed

I can see my children’s faces again.

Amina lost her sight to bilateral cataracts over two years. A single morning at our eye camp changed that. By evening, the bandages came off.

“I never thought I would see clearly again. This gift changed my life.”

Amina Hassan, patient

Read their story

Beyond the hospitals

Care that reaches every state.

Hospitals anchor the work. Mobile clinics, classrooms, and a training college extend it.

School screenings

Six campaigns since 2007, from Khartoum to Port Sudan, Atbara and beyond. The largest school-screening footprint in our network.

875K+students screened
2,252schools
About school screening

Makkah Technical College

Training Sudan’s next generation of eye-care professionals since 2007. This year the college welcomed 258 new students, its first intake since the war began.

1,148graduates
720current students
About training

Give to Sudan

Someone in Sudan will see tomorrow because of what you do today.

Choose an amount, or give monthly to keep all ten hospitals running year round.

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