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© Mathieu Bichet/MSF
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A mass vaccination campaign against measles was launched in the Chadian capital on March 26, following a quick increase of measles cases affecting children and adolescents.
From the beginning of the year to March 20, 3,550 cases were declared. Around 800 appeared during the third week of March. As a result, an emergency response was organised in close collaboration with Chadian authorities. The vaccination campaign was initially planned to end on April 6, but its length is extended, in cooperation with Chadian health authorities, to reach the needed level of coverage.
MSF has been running a fistula project in Abéché General Hospital in eastern Chad since January 2008, where a team performs surgical operations on patients to repair their internal injuries and provide a cure for their incontinence.
With an estimated 300 to 400 new obstetric fistula cases per year in Chad, a backlog of cases dating from many decades, and with more than 100 women already on the waiting list at Abéché Hospital, the team faced a challenging task when they launched the project.
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Month in Focus - May 2009
Somalia: MSF staff released; Meningitis: seven million people vaccinated; Thailand: Hmong refugees under pressure; Darfur, Sudan – MSF expelled; DRC: More displaced in North Kivu; Yemen: Primary health care and surgery
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