Crisis-Ready AI: Lessons from the Sudan Crisis for Deploying Agentic Clinical Intelligence in Conflict-Zone Field Hospitals

This perspective paper introduces the 'Crisis-Ready AI' framework, designed for field hospitals in conflict zones like Sudan. It addresses the critical gap in clinical decision support for ultra-low-resource settings by proposing offline-capable, agentic AI systems. The framework emphasizes edge-quantized models, human-in-the-loop oversight, and a pragmatic two-phase validation pathway, providing a pragmatic roadmap for humanitarian technology deployment.