MSF has been supporting the local health system in Bauchi since 2012 by responding to outbreaks of diseases like cholera, diphtheria, and Lassa fever, and providing healthcare, training medical staff, and conducting health promotion activities in communities.
Since 2022, MSF has been responding to the huge numbers of children suffering from malnutrition. Our teams currently run a 250-bed inpatient therapeutic feeding centre and an inpatient paediatric department in Kafin Madaki General hospital. We also support three outpatient therapeutic feeding centres in Kafin Madaki, Kafin Liman and Miya healthcare centres.
New community-based activities are also planned. The integrated community case management programme aims to expand the existing community-based approach to include the treatment of malnutrition.
This pilot programme in eight villages in Miya started in mid-July. To respond to the increasing number of admissions for malnutrition in the region, MSF added malnutrition treatment to the programme’s conventional activities, which include malaria and diarrhoea diagnosis and treatment.
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