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Mora, Far-North Cameroon

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Cameroon is facing multiple and overlapping crises, including recurrent epidemics, malnutrition due to food insecurity, displacement, and conflict.

Currently, our teams run medical humanitarian projects in the Far North, providing services such as medical care, surgical care, maternal and obstetric care, and psychological care. 

We also provide emergency response to epidemics, such as cholera and measles. In the Far North, Littoral, Centre and South-West regions, we have recently provided support to the Ministry of Health to respond to the cholera outbreak. 

Our medical activities in the North-West region were suspended in December 2020 by the authorities, and in the South-West, we decided to temporarily suspend activities after the arrest of four of our colleagues in December 2021 during an ambulance referral. We are in continued dialogue with the authorities to restart medical assistance in other regions.
 

Our activities in 2022 in Cameroon

Data and information from the International Activity Report 2022.  
 

MSF in Cameroon in 2022 In Cameroon, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continued to respond to health emergencies, such as disease outbreaks, floods and mass displacement, in spite of a partial suspension of activities in 2022.
Cameroon IAR map 2022

Although there were new waves of displacement in Far North, Northwest and Southwest regions during the year, we were forced to reduce our activities even further when four of our staff were imprisoned and accused of complicity with secession in Buea, in Southwest region. They were all later exonerated; however, we were not able to resume our medical services as the government provided no guarantees that our staff and patients would be protected.

Meanwhile, the suspension of our medical activities ordered by Cameroonian authorities in Northwest region in December 2020 remains in place, meaning that these two anglophone regions, which have been engulfed in conflict since 2016, have been left without much-needed support.

In Far North region, we responded to the increasing healthcare needs with patient treatment, training of medical staff, and reinforcement of medical supplies in health centres supported by MSF. We also helped improve access to healthcare at community level, by working with community health volunteers, whom we have trained to treat simple cases of common diseases.

Heavy rains in Kousseri caused thousands of people to abandon their homes. During the ensuing high peak in malaria, we scaled up treatment in the area. Due to insecurity issues, we took the hard decision to end our activities in Fotokol, where some of our staff were abducted in January 2022.

There was a surge in cholera cases in several regions in 2022. MSF supported the national response in Centre, Littoral, West and Far North regions, by providing epidemiological surveillance, training for community health workers, hygiene activities to curb the spread of the disease, and vaccinations. We also supported the national COVID-19 response in the capital, Yaoundé, with testing and vaccinations. 

 

in 2022
 
Beni ebola treatment center
Cameroon

All MSF staff acquitted in military tribunal in Cameroon

Press Release 10 Jan 2023
 
MSF ambulance at Mamfe Distric Hospital
Cameroon

MSF closes project bases in Kumba and Mamfe in South-West Cameroon

Statement 18 Jul 2022
 
Mamfe District Hospital
Cameroon

MSF condemns attack on Mamfe hospital in Southwest region

Press Release 9 Jun 2022
 
Cholera vaccination campaign in Enyenge, Southwest Cameroon
Attacks on medical care

Four months on, an ongoing nightmare for MSF colleagues detained in South-West Cameroon

Project Update 28 Apr 2022
 
Mamfe District Hospital
Cameroon

MSF suspends medical activities in South-West Cameroon over ongoing staff detention

Press Release 5 Apr 2022
 
MSF ambulance at Mamfe Distric Hospital
Cameroon

MSF statement following incident at Nguti checkpoint

Statement 27 Dec 2021
 
Malnutrition emergency: mobile clinic in Ranobe
Cameroon

Doctors Without Borders forced to withdraw medical teams from North-West Cameroon

Press Release 3 Aug 2021
 
Rounds in Mamfe Distric Hospital
Cameroon

Access to healthcare in Cameroon severely limited as violence and unrest rule

Project Update 29 Jul 2021
 
Bamenda/North-West Ambulance service
Cameroon

Doctors Without Borders unequivocally rejects allegations of support for armed groups in Cameroon

Statement 5 Jul 2021

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