Emergency response
- 150,000 displaced people in Niger and Burkina Faso received emergency medical assistance in 2019.
- 27 emergency assessments were conducted to identify and respond to health crises.
- Over 10 countries of intervention to provide life-saving care during epidemics, conflicts, and natural disasters.
In times of crisis, every second matters. ALIMA deploys a rapid and effective response to reduce mortality and protect the most vulnerable.
➡️ Epidemics, malnutrition, conflicts, natural disasters, population displacements: ALIMA tackles all dimensions of medical emergencies.
Humanitarian context and challenge
Humanitarian crises: more frequent, more complex
- Health emergencies: rapid spread of epidemics due to mass displacement and collapsed medical infrastructure.
- Armed conflicts: medical facilities are destroyed, staff flee, and civilians are left without care.
- Acute malnutrition: millions of children at risk of death due to lack of adequate care and nutrition.
- Natural disasters: destruction of health facilities, restricted access to care, increased risk of epidemics.
⏳ A rapid response is essential to save lives and limit the impact of humanitarian crises.
ALIMA’s action : emergency medical interventions
💡How does ALIMA respond to emergencies?
ALIMA deploys its multidisciplinary teams from the first days of a crisis to treat the injured, stop the spread of diseases, and strengthen local health systems.
🔹 Epidemic response
🦠 Limiting the spread and treating sick people
- Management of patients with measles, cholera, Ebola, Mpox, Marburg, Lassa fever, malaria.
- Deployment of medical units specialized in the response to viral hemorrhagic fevers.
- Large-scale vaccination campaigns and community outreach efforts.
📌 Example: Since 2014, ALIMA has been responding to Ebola outbreaks across Africa. With innovative treatments and participation in clinical trials, ALIMA, a specialist in viral hemorrhagic fevers, has led key interventions in Guinea, DRC, Uganda, and Equatorial Guinea, using CUBE bio-secure units and training healthcare workers.
🔹Malnutrition: a life-saving emergency for children
🥣 Rapid treatment for severe acute malnutrition
- Distribution of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF).
- Management of complications in Intensive Therapeutic Nutritional Centers.
- Early detection using the MUAC-Mother approach (mid-upper arm circumference bracelet).
📌 Example: ALIMA has saved thousands of malnourished children across Nigeria and the Sahel.
🔹 Medical care in conflict zones
⚔️ Ensuring access to care despite insecurity
- Treatment of war wounds and trauma.
- Care for affected civilians: pregnant women, children, the elderly.
- Psychosocial support for survivors of violence and displacement.
📌 Example: In the DRC, ALIMA treated the wounded in Goma amid escalation conflict.
🔹Care for displaced populations
🏠 Essential care for families fleeing conflict or disaster
- Emergency medical consultations for refugees and internally displaced persons.
- Access to healthcare for pregnant women and children.
- Vaccination and epidemic prevention in refugee camps.
📌 Example: In Haiti, ALIMA provided life-saving care to thousands of displaced people from Port-au-Prince, despite limited humanitarian and security access.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- Rapid deployment of specialized teams.
- Collaboration with local authorities to organize care.
- Logistical and medical support to ensure access to healthcare.
- Epidemics (Ebola, cholera, measles, MPOX, Marburg).
- Severe acute malnutrition.
- Armed conflicts and violence.
- Influx of wounded individuals.
- Massive population displacements.
Responses to major crises
- Haiti (2010): Surgery and cholera treatment following the earthquake.
- Mali (2012): Medical and surgical care in response to the conflict.
- Guinea (since 2014): Ongoing fight against Ebola and Covid-19 outbreaks.
- Nigeria (since 2016): Response to nutrition crises and epidemics.
- Democratic Republic of Congo (since 2018): Management of Ebola, Covid-19 and measles outbreaks.
- Burkina Faso (2019): Care for the displaced and mass vaccination campaigns.
Recent interventions (2022-2025)
- 2022
- Ukraine: Support for the Ukrainian healthcare system.
- Uganda: Ebola outbreak.
- Equatorial Guinea: Marburg epidemic.
- 2023
- Nigeria: Diphtheria epidemic.
- 2024
- Haiti: Ongoing intervention.
- Niger: Meningitis epidemic.
- DRC: Mpox epidemic.
- Rwanda: Marburg epidemic.
- Guinea: Diphtheria epidemic.
- 2025
- DRC: Response to an influx of wounded individuals.
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