In Peru, MSF launched a 3-months intervention to support the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 activities in the Amazon region. In the Sud department we have provided this support to Immaculate Conception hospital in Les Cayes, the Port-à-Piment health center, and the community hospital of Port-Salut, as well as support for patient referrals. Together with state health authorities, we are conducting a large-scale community sensitization campaign on COVID-19. We also support local health facilities with IPC training. COVID-19 is a new viral disease that affects the respiratory system The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on 11 March 2020. By Reuters • 21 August 2020 . In Manila we support our partner organization, Likhaan, with health promotion activities. Direct nutritional support to vulnerable HIV-positive people is even more crucial during the COVID-19 outbreak. If the pilot is successful, MSF will introduce similar triage systems in other TB dispensaries across the country. Our teams in Idlib National Hospital’s COVID treatment center were reinforced after the first confirmed cases. We’ve also carried out trainings on infection prevention and PPE use for all staff. In Ngala MSF's hospital has ceased 24-hour services but continues to provide primary health care services during the day as well as community-based health promotion services. At the Kabinda Hospital Center in Kinshasa, where MSF supports HIV/AIDS patients, we have set up an isolation/stabilization unit with 20 beds which is used before transferring patients to health facilities identified by the MoH. MSF also seeks to ensure that any new treatments or vaccines developed to respond to COVID-19 are accessible, affordable, and available to all. The MSF project in Hong Kong has shifted its focus from health education to mental health support. The team is also developing additional COVID-19 case management capacity for health care facilities in Eshowe and Mbongolwane. As COVID-19 has spread, MSF teams are racing to respond to the pandemic in the more than 70 countries in which we run programmes, while opening projects in new countries as they become pandemic hotspots. The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global emergency—and Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are responding in more than 70 countries. MSF has visited several hospitals in Port-au-Prince that were forced to close their services, totally or partially, due to COVID-19, with the goal of assessing what support we can provide and to reduce the impact of the epidemic on other medical needs. If you cough or sneeze, cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or with the inside of your elbow. The team also implemented triage infrastructure in six hospitals bordering Thailand. There were more than 88 million cases of the coronavirus around the world—with more cases in the United States (21.6 million) than in any other country. We also set up IPC measures and patient and triage flows to protect staff and beneficiaries in facilities run and supported by MSF. I got off the minibus and collected my personal protective equipment (known as PPE). Our teams have implemented COVID-19 preparedness measures in all our projects in the regions of Zinder (Zinder and Magaria), Maradi (Maradi and Madarounfa), Agadez, and Diffa. In Dakar we are supporting health authorities at the Hopital Dalal Jamm for the past six weeks. By the end of July all COVID-19 related activities will be handed over to the MoH. There is a gap in psychosocial care in Sierra Leone. The team has visited several state hospitals, including the Ciudad Altamirano health center, Arcelia Community hospital, and the Teloloapan Community hospital, where we carry out trainings for health staff and provide support in setting up circuits for staff and patients. We have visited around one-third of the facilities designated to treat COVID-19 patients in Zhytomyr and have launched telephone hotlines to provide psychological support for both health workers and COVID-19 patients. In spite of its community testing strategy (more than 200,000 people tested) Uganda has reported a low number of confirmed cases (1,043 as of July 14) and no COVID-19 deaths. We also did health promotion in two IDP centers in Metuge. Our objective is to significantly raise the level of care for severe COVID-19 patients and relieve the pressure on the existing COVID-19 management center—Shaidayee and Liberty hospitals—which are increasingly overwhelmed. Workers from Doctors Without Borders are trying to help the US get a grip on the pandemic, he said. Our pediatric hospital in Monrovia (BJH) has been adapted with IPC measures. We also provide support and training on the triage system of the National Public Health Organization, which is responsible for COVID-19 triage and case management. One of Doctors Without Borders’ answer is What Can You Do About COVID-19?, a children’s activity book with artwork by internationally published author and artist Elbert Or. In Laylan camp, Kirkuk governorate, we are mobilizing a 20-bed caravan isolation and treatment facility and continue to implement triage measures for any suspected COVID-19 patients and raise awareness about prevention measures. We run a 15-bed isolation ward for mild and moderate cases and refer serious patients to tertiary structures. We help people threatened by violence, neglect, natural disasters, epidemics and health emergencies The COVID-19 pandemic is still not under control, and has created significant challenges for our medical work ar... ound the world. Over 400 patients have been admitted to this unit so far, including 44 to the intensive care unit. To ensure continuity of care for people who use drugs we set up a triage system and an isolation room at Karuri hospital in Kiambu County. In addition, MSF mobile teams supported 50 health structures in four health zones in Kinshasa to reinforce hygiene measures, provide masks and handwashing stations, and train medical staff and community relays on infection prevention and control. MSF is supporting several health facilities in Nairobi, Kiambu, Garissa, and Mombasa Counties. Given the sharp increase of COVID-19 cases in recent weeks (1,611 as of July 19), MSF stepped up its support to the MoH and Child Care. In order to limit the risk of transmission, the general strategy adopted is to avoid big vaccination sites and to divide the target areas into smaller zones, running activities on a longer timeframe. This intervention should end at the end of September. Health Promotion on infection prevention is also given to all patients and caretakers at the facilities in Arabic, Oromo, and Amharic. In Taiz city,we continue to support lifesaving activities in three hospitals in addition to providing training on IPC, screening, triage, and identification of COVID-19 cases. Health promotion has been strengthened at the community level—especially targeting people affected and displaced by violence—using community health workers and nurses as well as radio messages. In Boa Vista, the number of COVID-19 cases is decreasing. On February 11, the World Health Organization named the disease caused by the new coronavirus: COVID-19. MSF has also been helping local health facilities in Erbil and Dohuk with technical and logistical support and staff training on IPC. In Patna, Bihar, MSF works in a facility set up in a converted sports hall to care for mild to moderate COVID-19 patients, to support the Nalanda Medical College Hospital. In South Beirut, in the Bekaa valley, and in Baalbek-Hermel, our teams are training and assisting families on the practice of shielding, a voluntary process that can provide additional protection to people at heightened risk of contracting COVID-19. Our existing projects in Ninewa, Diyala, Kirkuk, and Baghdad have also reinforced their triage capacity and continue to support ICP and refer cases to MoH hospitals according to the protocol established by health authorities. If you wish to do so or have any questions, please contact us at (888) 392-0392 or donations@newyork.msf.org. The international medical humanitarian organization spent two months in Immokalee, where an estimated 15,000-20,000 … Four types are known to cause colds, and two other types can cause severe lung infections: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). A key priority is to keep our regular medical programs running for the tens of thousands of patients and extremely vulnerable communities we help support. Teams are also conducting community health promotion and education activities. A hotline and WhatsApp number has been set up so that MSF psychologists can provide psychological care remotely to migrants and refugees as well as to people isolated by violence in Guerrero and migrants and refugees across the country. This is obvious in many of the countries with the highest death tolls—including in the United States, India, Brazil, and Mexico. ‘I saw the need’: Doctors Without Borders fights COVID in Houston nursing homes By Emily Foxhall, Staff writer 9/10/2020 U.S. COVID-19 cases cross 11 million as pandemic intensifies We continue to train frontline health workers on prevention measures, detection of cases, and case management (including mental health). Doctors Without Borders (MSF) sent a team and temporary hospital unit to Iran on March 22, only to have the regime spread claims that it was spying and try to expel the aid from the country. The COVID-19 global health crisis continues to hold the world firmly in its grip. Meanwhile, across the country MSF teams are providing intensive COVID-19 awareness sessions to vulnerable communities. By entering in your mobile telephone number and checking the box above, you agree to receive SMS notifications from Doctors Without Borders short code 96329. In Adjumani district, in the North, an MSF team intervened to improve living conditions in a transit center used to quarantine and test refugees, where conditions were particularly poor. However, it is possible to have your gift directed toward Doctors Without Borders COVID-19 Crisis Fund. MSF supports the MoH in the response to COVID-19 in the Donetsk and Zhytomyr regions. In MSF projects across Sudan, we have implemented safety and hygiene measures to avoid the emergence of cases among our staff. COVID-19 is demonstrating how policy decisions of social exclusion, reduced access to free healthcare and increased inequality will now be felt by all of us. The Ministry of Health recently increased the hospital's capacity by 200 beds and we are helping prepare to care for more severe cases of COVID-19. The virus is contagious, and everyone is presumed to be susceptible. In Lubumbashi, MSF maintains a dedicated COVID-19 structure with a 20-bed capacity, which was constructed near the airport. Information about your device and internet connection, including your IP address, Browsing and search activity while using Verizon Media websites and apps. “I want to help your country’s hospitals”: How COVID-19 should change our view of aid | Blogs from Doctors Without Borders In addition to trainings, MSF is working on preparedness for COVID-19 in all project locations across the country, as well as on preventive measures to be able to isolate and treat suspected patients who may eventually reach our health facilities. MSF, or Doctors Without Borders, presented a plan to assist the seven communities with about 5,000 inhabitants, adding in a statement that it had been invited to help by tribal leaders. We are also stepping up health promotion activities and providing technical advice or logistical support to set up isolation structures. CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The humanitarian aid group Doctors Without Borders is pulling out of a hospital in a Venezuelan slum that had been one of the nation’s best-equipped to treat COVID-19 patients, saying government restrictions made work impossible. Everywhere we work, we see how this pandemic hurts already vulnerable and marginalized communities. Phone consultations are also available. We have trained staff and supported water and sanitation efforts, and helped with simplification of triage and other protocols. Covid Chronicles, Vol. A TB program is in place in both Misrata and Tripoli. We are supporting the MoH by assisting with infection control and triage at health facilities. Avoid crowded places and large gatherings, and generally keep some physical distance between you and other people. The objective is to decrease the risk of transmission of COVID-19 between individuals seeking care and the staff working there. Public health measures such as isolation, quarantine, and social distancing are generally put in place to limit community transmission, reduce the number of new cases and severely ill patients, protect the most vulnerable people, and manage health resources. In partnership with local health authorities in Eshowe, we set up 35 medicine pickup points in communities. Doctors Without Borders confirms it has been able to deliver a shipment to North Korea by way of China as aid workers continue to struggle to contain COVID-19. MSF teams doing COVID-19 triage in Brussels. MSF is supporting the field hospital with doctors treating moderate cases. We expanded our field teams and reoriented part of our services to respond to COVID-19. The proposal has been discussed and approved by NTP. My Story Donations Dear Friends, Thank you for visiting our fundraising page, and joining us to support the lifesaving mission of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)! We provided clinical training to the staff, reinforced lab and testing capacity, and we stand ready to support with case management. Beyond Tripoli, we continue to work in four detention centers (in Khoms, Zliten, Zintan, and Zuwara) to provide first aid to people disembarked in Libya and primary health care and referrals to migrants and refugees in Bani Walid. In Timergara, an MSF team is screening more than 1,000 people every day for COVID-19 symptoms and providing consultations for suspected cases. We have coordinated with state health authorities to provide technical IPC support where needed. Follow-up is limited to urgent cases. A new coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan, China, on December 31, 2019. We had to suspend mobile clinics, but patients can still reach us through our phone hotline. Many of the COVID-19 vaccines and treatments currently being developed have been … COVID-19 had killed more than one million people, Responding to COVID-19: MSF Global Accountability Report, Donate now to help us respond to the coronavirus pandemic, facility set up in a converted sports hall. by Reuters Thursday, 20 August 2020 22:05 GMT . We participate in the Mozambica Government COVID-19 coordination meetings and technical groups providing advice on the response in the country and facilitating access to updated evidence for the latest COVID-19 protocols. We’re also working in Bobo-Dioulasso, western Burkina Faso, where the second-most severe epicenter of the outbreak is located. We provide daily trainings to health workers including bedside trainings and mentoring in the health facilities we support. A total of 66 deaths have been recorded by MSF (59 at Drouillard and seven in Martissant) while more than 100 COVID-19 patients have been discharged from Drouillard. The already fragile health system is now overburdened with COVID-19. We are also responding to the growing needs in countries where we run some of our largest medical projects, such as Iraq and Yemen. My Story Donations Dear Friends, Thank you for visiting our fundraising page, and joining us to support the lifesaving mission of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)! We have been asked by city authorities in the capital Quito to assist in nursing homes, and an MSF team there has confirmed that the situation there is distinctly alarming. In Bamako, MSF supports the MoH’s 100-bed COVID-19 treatment unit within the grounds of the hospital where it runs its oncology program (“Point G” hospital). In all projects, MSF has put in place all necessary preventative measures to mitigate the risk of our facilities becoming part of the chain of transmission. MSF has carried out COVID-19 screening of DRTB and HIV patients in its private independent clinic and in an outpatient department co-managed with India’s national TB program. In te North West and South West regions, MSF has set up isolation and treatment wards in Bamenda, Kumba (16 beds), and Buea (20 beds) regional hospitals for suspected and confirmed COVID-19 patients and trained medical and non-medical staff who will run the units. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are working in projects around the world to fight the spread of coronavirus, and to sustain other lifesaving medical aid for communities who are further threatened by this pandemic. Emergency teams in more than 70 countries reacted quickly to prepare for and respond to COVID-19 while keeping other vital health services running during this pandemic. As with other coronaviruses, droplet infection seems to be the main mode of transmission. We have obtained a greenlight from public health authorities to run malaria chemoprevention campaigns in the district this year. In Puerto Rico, MSF works in close collaboration with local partners to provide primary care consultations in homes and at ‘pop-up’ clinics to people suffering from chronic health conditions who had been unable to or fearful of going to health care facilities due to COVID-19. In Choloma, the sexual and reproductive health project is still open, with some limitations. If there is no visible dirt on your hands, an alcohol-based gel is also a good option. This includes the distribution of supplies to community leaders to install handwashing stations at main markets and health centers, resulting in a total of 145 new handwashing stations. In Rann, MSF continues to provide community-based health promotion services and will start round-trip visits for medical consultations. We train these committees on improving IPC and identifying suspected cases, how to alert the authorities, and how to act as first responders through the use of COVID-19 kits. Please continue to care for each other, and care for frontline workers in your communities and around the world by helping slow the spread of COVID-19. In Matamoros and Reynosa a psychological care phone line has launched for people who are victims of violence or who are coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. In late May 2020 MSF deployed medical response teams (MRT) to support the Ministry of Public Health in its COVID-19 testing strategy across Lebanon. In Al Hol, where 94 percent of inhabitants are women and children, we continue to run our inpatient nutrition center and a tent-based wound care program for people who cannot reach clinics. In Taiz governate we have adapted IPC measures and patient and triage flows to protect staff and patients in our Mother and Child hospital in Taiz Houban. We are posting health education messages through social media channels and supporting health education for individuals with TB in Karakalpakstan and shared COVID-19 and TB messaging with the MoH and the UN to increase the reach. We are also helping with laboratory support in Juba, with MSF co-facilitating trainings for staff of different institutions. At the Sheikh Zayyed Hospital, where we were already providing training and donations, we have now started triage, an inpatient department (20 beds, expandable) and an intensive care unit (6 beds, expandable). Project coordinator Chiara shares her experience working alongside Italian doctors and nurses on the frontline of the pandemic in northern Italy. In Tumaco we are carrying out medical and mental health activities in the city’s two public hospitals. So far, teams are able to continue medical activities, but securing future supplies of key items—such as surgical masks, swabs, gloves, and chemicals used to diagnose COVID-19—is a matter of concern. That’s why Doctors Without Borders/Médicins Sans Frontières (MSF) demands that future COVID-19 vaccines remain affordable and accessible for all countries equally. Northeastern Syria: MSF is part of the COVID-19 humanitarian taskforce chaired by local health authorities in northeastern Syria. From mid-March, MSF shifted its operational priorities to help draft IPC and clinical care management guidelines. On the island of Lesbos, MSF operates an inpatient medical unit near the Moria reception center for patients who present symptoms similar to COVID-19 and potential positive cases, with the aim of detecting cases, safely isolating patients, and monitoring the medical condition and treatment of mild cases. MSF is also bringing COVID-19-positive patients in Lower Dir district to the isolation ward by ambulance, but only under certain conditions. In the northern border project, in Matamoros and Reynosa, MSF increased and adapted activities at a shelter and a camp for asylum seekers. In Tegucigalpa, MSF has started medical activities in an adapted center for severe COVID-19 patients with the aim of helping the metropolitan health system keep hospitals from overcrowding.So far MSF has cared for 44 patients. The teams implemented IPC measures and provided training sessions, including for health promotion, for both MoH and MSF staff and private caregivers. There is also a risk of supply shortages due to a lack of production of generic drugs and difficulties to import essential drugs due to lockdowns, reduced production of basic products, exportation stops, or the repurposing and stocking of drugs and material for COVID-19. All of them tested negative for COVID-19. 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