24-9-2025
Radar: The absence of the state's role in facing the health disaster
By Professor/Ehab Al-Nakhli
Dengue fever and malaria
In light of the widespread of dengue fever and malaria in Sudan, the features of an acute health crisis are unfolding, revealing the absence of an effective role for the Ministry of Health and the state's inability to confront an epidemic that claims lives day after day. Despite the scientific and technological progress in pathology, the facts are revealed and corruption appears.
Absence of a clear plan:
Despite the number of infections exceeding thousands, and deaths being recorded in bulk according to some media sources, the Ministry of Health has not announced a clear plan to combat the epidemic. The lack of coordination between health agencies, and the lack of proactive vision in dealing with epidemic crises are noted.
Collapse of medical supply chains
Even the simplest medicines, such as "Panadol," have become scarce in some areas, reflecting a collapse in supply chains, and an absence of control over the distribution of medicines, at a time when one needs the simplest tools for pain relief and support.
Absence of community awareness
There are no effective media campaigns to educate people about ways to prevent mosquitoes, or to recognize the symptoms of the disease, which increases the spread of infection, and weakens the community's ability to protect itself.
Weakness of health infrastructure
Hospitals suffer from a severe shortage of medical personnel and equipment, even basic diagnostic tools, which makes the response to the epidemic slow and random, and exposes the lives of thousands to danger.
How did other countries deal with epidemics?
Brazil:
– Launched ground and aerial spraying campaigns using modern pesticides.
– Distributed mosquito nets, and activated community awareness campaigns.
– Provided medicines urgently in the affected areas.
Bangladesh:
– Established temporary emergency centers in poor neighborhoods.
– Provided hotlines for reports, and mobile response teams.
France:
– Activated early warning systems.
– Intensified monitoring of the transmitting mosquito, and started local awareness campaigns.
Health is one of the most important duties and the state is fully responsible
Sudan still lacks effective detection and reporting mechanisms, which makes the real numbers much higher than announced, and complicates the crisis. The current health crisis is a direct result of the absence of an active state role in healthcare that puts human life at the forefront of its priorities, a state that applies Islam and applies the saying of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab, may God be pleased with him, "If a mule stumbles in Iraq, then God will ask me about it on the Day of Resurrection."
Proposed solutions
– Establishing a health system that fears God first in human life and is effective, not subject to quotas or corruption.
– Providing free health care as a basic right for all the people. And canceling the licenses of private hospitals and preventing investment in the field of medicine.
– Activating the role of prevention before treatment, through awareness campaigns and mosquito control.
– Restructuring the Ministry of Health to be responsible for people's lives, not just an administrative body.
– Adopting a political system that puts human life above economic and political interests.
– Disconnecting from criminal organizations and the drug mafia.
In the history of Muslims, hospitals were established to serve people for free, managed with high efficiency, and funded from the public treasury, not from people's pockets. Healthcare was part of the state's responsibility, not a favor or a trade.
What is happening today in Sudan from the spread of epidemics, and the absence of the state from the scene, is a dangerous omen that cannot be ignored. What is required is not only to provide Panadol, but to establish a real welfare state that cares about human life, and treats the roots of the crisis, not its symptoms, a state aware of the value of man and his life and the purpose for which he was created, which is to worship God alone. The Islamic state is the only one capable of addressing health care issues through the health system that can only be implemented under the second righteous caliphate on the path of prophecy, which will be established soon, God willing.
﴿O you who have believed, respond to Allah and to the Messenger when he calls you to that which gives you life.﴾
Source: Radar
