Currently, our teams run medical humanitarian projects in the Far North, providing medical, surgical, maternal obstetric, and psychological care.
We also provide emergency responses to epidemics, such as cholera and measles. In the Far North, Littoral, Centre, and South-West regions, we recently supported the Ministry of Health in responding to the cholera outbreak.
The authorities suspended our medical activities in the North-West region in December 2020, and in the South-West, we decided to temporarily suspend activities after four of our colleagues were arrested in December 2021 during an ambulance referral. We are in continued dialogue with the authorities to restart medical assistance in other regions.
Data and information from the International Activity Report 2023
The security situation in the Far North, where our regular project is located, continues to be volatile, with repeated clashes between state and non-state armed groups and outbreaks of intercommunal violence.
MSF teams support local health centres by providing general healthcare and donating medical supplies. In Mora, we built a new surgical unit in the hospital to improve the provision of emergency surgical care. During the rainy season in Kousseri, and the ensuing peak in malaria cases, our teams helped the regional hospital to scale up treatment.
We also supported the national response to a cholera outbreak in the Centre region, which affected nine health districts. In addition to treating patients, we improved water, sanitation, and hygiene facilities and conducted community awareness-raising activities and epidemiological surveillance.
In 2023, we made the decision to close our liaison office in Bamenda, Northwest region. Since the authorities ordered us to suspend activities in December 2020, we have been unable to provide much-needed support to people affected by violence and displacement. The conflict has been raging in the Northwest and Southwest regions since 2016.
IN 2023
