Feb 2024-March 2025

Emergency aid for refugees in eastern Chad

2014-2025

Médecins sans Frontières

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian association. For 50 years, it has provided medical assistance to people whose lives or health are in danger, mainly as a result of armed conflicts, epidemics or natural disasters. We’ve funded its work regularly since 2014 to provide lifesaving care across Africa, Asia and - during the COVID-19 crisis – Europe.

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CHALLENGE

Between the outbreak of war in Sudan and February 2024, more than 1.6 million people fled the country in search of safety, including approximately 555,000 who crossed into Chad. Displaced people in the Ouaddaï region struggle to survive in overcrowded camps under precarious conditions, putting a strain on already very limited resources and a fragile health infrastructure.

ACTION

MSF teams are working in the hospital in Adré, the only functioning permanent medical facility in the region. Here they provide medical care, mostly for refugees who were wounded fleeing Sudan, and to support the maternity, paediatric and surgical wards, as well as the therapeutic feeding centre.

MSF teams have also set up two health clinics in the unofficial transit camp in the town of Adré. These clinics provide general healthcare, routine vaccinations, malnutrition treatment and mental and reproductive health services for 150,000 people.

In Ourang Camp, which is around 45 kilometres from Adré and currently hosts 53,000 people, MSF teams have set up a 100-bed inflatable hospital as an extension of the hospital in Adré. This facility, which includes two operating theatres and a maternity ward, is providing essential health services to people living in the camp as well as neighbouring villages. Patients here are referred to Adré hospital for specialist and surgical care.

In addition to these hospital facilities, MSF teams are improving access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in both camps, ensuring a minimum of services are provided for the increasing number of arrivals.

MSF teams are likewise providing healthcare, nutritional support, and water and sanitation services in temporary sites and newly-built camps across Ouaddaï region, such as the Ambelia transit camp, Arkoum camp and Metché camp.