Senegal: ALIMA’s Actions on the Ground
📍 ALIMA presence since: 2020
🛡️ Mission status: Completed
🔹 Key areas of expertise: Epidemics and emerging diseases
Humanitarian situation in Senegal
In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic quickly spread in Senegal, with over 74,000 confirmed cases recorded across the country. The health system faced immense pressure, requiring a coordinated response to strengthen access to care, prevention, and confirmed case management.
Since the first cases were reported in March 2020, ALIMA supported the Senegalese Ministry of Health, focusing on:
- Screening and management of Covid-19 patients
- Strengthening health facilities in Dakar and its suburbs
- Raising awareness and community mobilization to prevent the virus’s spread
📌 Key figures of the crisis in Senegal
- 🌍 Population: 18 million (World Bank, 2023)
- 🚨 People in need of humanitarian aid: NA
- 🏠 Internally displaced persons and refugees: 11,800 (UNHCR, 2024)
- 🍽️ People facing severe food insecurity: NA
Medical aid and humanitarian response in Senegal
🦠 Epidemic response
Faced with the spread of Covid-19, ALIMA deployed an emergency response targeting both confirmed case management and community-level prevention efforts.
- Support for the Covid-19 treatment center in Yeumbeul
- Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) training for healthcare workers
- Assistance to Fann Hospital to improve patient management
- Rehabilitation of sanitation infrastructure (triage areas, laundries, incinerators)
- Community mobilization across 147 neighborhoods to raise awareness of risks and identify vulnerable people.
Through these actions, ALIMA contributed to improving Senegal’s health response capacity to the pandemic.
📊 In 2020, ALIMA cared for over 120 patients with Covid-19 and provided 3,000 free primary consultations.
On the ground
Our News from Senegal
COVID-19 in Senegal: The needs to fight the pandemic are significant
Interview with Dr. Charles Tehoua, Emergency Medical Coordinator for ALIMA (The Alliance for International Medical Action).
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COVID-19 in Senegal: Working with communities to protect and care for the most vulnerable
While the number of new cases is decreasing in Senegal, ALIMA teams are not lowering their guard against the virus. After having participated in the
