Reference :
V-P-NE-E-00123
Date :
20/11/2014
Caption :
Near Diffa, Bosso, Health Center. A nurse vaccinates a child against measles. The ICRC has funded the vaccination of 30,000 children (both displaced and resident) against measles in Bosso department
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
Extract fom ICRC website article, 13.01.2015 :
Niger: Massive food-aid project for people fleeing conflict in Nigeria
Over the past three months, more than 25,000 people (residents, displaced people and returnees) have been aided by the ICRC, which worked closely with the Red Cross Society of Niger to deliver food aid for nearly 45,000 individuals in 2014. Of these, some 11,000 also received essential household items (blankets, tarpaulins, mosquito nets, mats, clothes and kitchen utensils).
"In addition to caring for wounded people, we urgently need to provide food, drinking water and basic household items to the thousands – mostly women and children – who continue to flee the violence," explained Loukas Petridis, head of the ICRC delegation in Niger.
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Treating the wounded and improving access to health care, water and sanitation
Over the past three months, some 50 wounded people have received care at the Diffa regional hospital and the Bosso integrated health centre, two facilities supported by the ICRC. An ICRC surgical team spent three weeks at the Diffa hospital, which also received a fresh delivery of medical supplies, in order to enhance the staff's technical skills and help treat the wounded. The team mainly worked with the hospital's surgical department on surgical techniques, monitoring of patients, and the ICRC's guidelines on treating gunshot wounds.
The large number of displaced people living in the Diffa area and the very difficult conditions they face increase the risk of epidemics. To minimize that risk, the ICRC has funded a measles-vaccination campaign in Bosso department (Bandi, Baroua, Bosso, Dagaya and Toumour), where many of the displaced are living. In total, nearly 30,000 children between nine months and 14 years of age, and mainly from displaced families, have been immunized against measles.
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