| Photo of the Month September 2008 |
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© Espen Rasmussen |
In 2004, in the Bakool region in Somalia, hundreds of mothers queued for nutritional screening in the small village of Istorte. MSF checked children for malnutrition and referred severe cases to MSF’s therapeutic centre in Huddur. Today, in 2008, MSF continues to run a 293-bed health centre in the regional capital, Huddur, serving a population of approximately 250,000 people. The outpatient department has a maternal and child health component, including vaccination and the inpatient department, which consists of adult and paediatric wards, a kala azar ward, a tuberculosis (TB) ward, a delivery room, a maternity ward and a therapeutic feeding centre. In addition to the hospital, MSF runs four health posts in the Bakool region. From January to June 2008, 17,106 consultations were done by staff in these health posts. And as malnutrition continues to plague the population of Bakool, 293 severely malnourished children were admitted to MSF’s feeding programme during the first six months of 2008. |
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A support group for pregnant women in Joburg camp for displaced foreigners: A Good Network
Harmony and her husband have found a new place. She is concerned that it will swallow their meagre income, but insists that the possibility of abject poverty is better than fearing for your life on a daily basis – she relates how four men climbed the camp fence two days ago, armed with sjamboks (tribal whips) and knives. “If that could happen in daytime, what won’t happen at night in a community that does not want us there,” she agitated. Read more...
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Schizophrenia
Youssef's only complaints were trouble falling asleep, occasional headaches, and a diffuse and vague sensation of burning over his chest and abdomen. According to him, there was no cause or specific meaning to these symptoms, other than that they indicated that he was “sick”. Read more...
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