Counterfeit drugs surge deepens Sudan’s health crisis

Counterfeit drugs surge deepens Sudan’s health crisis

A wave of falsified and expired medicines is compounding Sudan’s war-time health emergency, with pharmacists and former regulators warning of lethal products flooding open-air markets and crossing porous borders. Salwa, a Khartoum resident, said her mother died after taking what she believed was an anti-malaria treatment bought in Omdurman’s Sabreen market. She later found the pack had expired in 2018. “I accept fate,” she said, “but I can’t for…