8-8 | In a parched landscape, an MSF tractor roars as it approaches a small village in Dentiuk, in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state. It is towing a trailer to which a creaking wooden canoe is strapped. “Are you sure we are in the right place?” asks the driver.“It might not look like it, but when the rains come, this whole area is seriously hit by flooding and the only way to get around is by boat,” says Jorge, MSF’s logistics team leader. “Luckily, the houses in this village are built on higher ground.”
12-1 | The number of cholera cases is rising at an alarming rate in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, and in several departments (administrative areas) of the country, warns the medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), calling for an immediate intensification of the response to the outbreak.
10-28 | It has been seven weeks since the flood emergency was declared by the Government of Pakistan, calling on the international community for support. With harsh winter conditions forecast, flood-affected populations will be particularly vulnerable in the coming months.THE RESPONSE SO FAR – IN NUMBERSOver 23,600 patient consultations were conducted during mobile clinics in Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhuwa.
10-28 | It has been seven weeks since the flood emergency was declared by the Government of Pakistan, calling on the international community for support. With harsh winter conditions forecast, flood-affected populations will be particularly vulnerable in the coming months.THE RESPONSE SO FAR – IN NUMBERSOver 23,600 patient consultations were conducted during mobile clinics in Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhuwa.
9-23 | Shahid Abdullah, MSF’s emergency field coordinator in Balochistan describes the situation on the ground in flood-affected areas.
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