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UK FCDO gives a single number, 999, for police, ambulance and fire together, while warning that emergency services in Sudan have been severely impacted by the conflict and are often unresponsive. Treat a call as worth making rather than worth waiting on.

Fire shares the 999 line with police and ambulance, per UK FCDO, with the same warning that services are often unresponsive.

The same 999 line covers ambulance. UK FCDO advises making your own way to hospital rather than waiting, since the conflict has left emergency services often unresponsive. The number 111, which circulates as a Sudanese ambulance line, is not what the Foreign Office publishes.

Sudan's health system has been devastated by the war since April 2023. The US State Department reports over half of health facilities nationally out of service and UK FCDO says emergency services are often unresponsive, advising travellers to make their own way to hospital. Fedail is named on the US State Department Khartoum page as the site of the embassy's panel physicians, which indicates at least partial function, but the number given there is for visa medical examinations rather than emergency care, so it is not published as an emergency line. No current functioning emergency number for Khartoum could be verified. Confirm hospital status locally or through an evacuation provider before relying on this.