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The current situation in Hamdayet has only created more frustrations, anxiety and fear for refugees fleeing violence in Tigray, Ethiopia and is having a detrimental impact on their health.
Hano Yagoub, MSF’s acting emergency coordinator in Gedaref, Sudan, describes the situation in Um Rakuba camp, where 15,000 people are sheltering after fleeing violence in Ethiopia
Nasteh Shukri Mahamud, is a nurse and MSF medical team leader in Rokero, Central Darfur. He describes what it's like providing healthcare in this isolated and volatile region.
MSF teams are working closely with local authorities to reach people affected by floods in Khartoum and the State of Sennar
Fighting between elements of two different sections of the Sudanese security forces in Central Darfur state led to a violent incursion in an MSF-supported health facility that left one MSF staff member injured.
Across East Africa , MSF teams are working hard to keep providing essential medical services, taking steps to keep patients and staff safe as well as launching new activities to respond directly to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Following confirmation of the first cases of COVID-19 in Sudan, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has started supporting the Sudanese Ministry of Health (MoH), private facilities and designated COVID-19 health structures.
Over recent years, MSF has integrated the diagnosis and treatment of TB into some of its medical programmes in Sudan and South Sudan in order to help tackle this disease, treating refugees, internally displaced people and local communities.
Most of the world's countries have reported cases of coronavirus disease COVID-19 and MSF teams in over 70 countries are now racing to respond to the pandemic.
