South Sudan: « Each day we continue to save the lives of our patients »
At the Raja State Hospital in South Sudan’s Lol State, the power goes out each morning. It won’t come back on for another 12 hours. Health staff can switch on a newly-acquired generator to provide electricity to the most important machines – including two oxygen compressors – but the rest of the hospital remains without lights or fans. There is still no functioning lab on the grounds to diagnose some pathologies or allow for blood transfusions.
Ebola outbreak confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: ALIMA launches an emergency response
Dakar/Kinshasa, May 12th, 2017 – Following the confirmation of a case of Ebola fever in the Bas-Uélé province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the medical organization ALIMA (The Alliance for International Medical Action) is launching an emergency response. The NGO, which has been active in the country since 2011, is sending equipment, doctors, nurses, logisticians and hygiene and sanitation experts.
Lassa fever in Togo: ALIMA donates medical equipment and medication
LOME/DAKAR, April 25, 2017 – Following the confirmation of several cases of Lassa fever in Togo, the medical organization ALIMA (The Alliance for International Medical Action) donated medicines and medical equipment, including personal protection kits, to the Togolese Ministry of Health.
Ebola: New trial launched in West Africa to evaluate three vaccination strategies
PREVAC (Partnership for Research on Ebola VACcination) is a research consortium of health authorities from three West African countries
GUINEA: MEASLES OUTBREAK CONTINUES TO SPREAD
N’ZEREKORE, March 8, 2017 – More than 1,500 children have been infected with measles in Guinea since January. The Ministry of Health declared an outbreak of measles on February 8. The outbreak is now affecting 17 health prefectures in Guinea. N’zerekore, in the southeastern forest region, is the most affected prefecture, with 513 cases reported between January 1 and March 2.
GUINEA: TWO CONFIRMED EBOLA CASES, ALIMA REOPENS EMERGENCY TREATMENT CENTER
Conakry, March 17, 2016 – ALIMA (The Alliance for International Medical Action) today reopened its emergency Ebola treatment center in N’Zérékoré, Guinea, to admit two confirmed Ebola patients. ALIMA reopened the Ebola treatment center for confirmed and suspected cases in N’Zérékoré in collaboration with the Ministry of Health.
End of Rift valley fever response in northern Niger
DAKAR/NIAMEY, February 10, 2017 – ALIMA (The Alliance for International Medical Action) closed its Rift Valley Fever treatment center on January 31. An outbreak of Rift Valley Fever had been affecting northern Niger since August 2016. No new cases of the disease have been reported since the first week of January.
