After supporting L’Arche Kigobe, a private facility in which we provided care for trauma victims in Bujumbura, for more than five years, we withdrew from the facility in February 2021 and entered into a partnership with Prince Régent Charles Hospital to transfer our skills there.
At Prince Régent Charles Hospital, we reinforce treating people with moderate and severe trauma by providing medical training, donations and financial support.
Our teams also undertake initiatives to help prevent malaria, including through large-scale indoor residual spraying (IRS) campaigns, in areas such as Ryanzoro and Kinyinya.
Data and information from the International Activity Report 2023.
Malaria, the leading cause of death and hospital admissions in Burundi, remained a key priority for our teams. In Ryansoro district, we supported 16 health facilities in providing malaria care and trained community health workers to detect and manage simple disease cases. Our teams also supported malaria treatment in 21 health facilities in the Gihofi health district by training staff and donating drugs and equipment.
In Cibitoke health district, we launched an emergency intervention in response to a steep rise in cases, providing treatment in two hospitals and 12 health centres, and supporting community-based care through a network of 63 community health workers.
Meanwhile, in the Ryansoro and Gisuru districts, we finished the operational research we had been conducting in collaboration with the Burundian National Malaria Programme and Antwerp’s Institute of Tropical Medicine. In November, we presented the study results, which aim to provide evidence on the best ways to tackle malaria in the country, at a national roundtable we attended.
Elsewhere in Burundi, our teams responded to several cholera outbreaks during the year. In January, after an outbreak was officially declared, we started to support dedicated treatment centres in Bujumbura city, Gatumba, and Rugombo by training staff, donating medicines and equipment, organising patient referrals, and providing health awareness sessions in communities. We also reinforced mass-casualty planning and management in Bujumbura, notably through training at Prince Régent Charles Hospital.
