Médecins Sans Frontières - REPORT: Malnutrition in IDP camp in Bama, Nigeria (ENG)

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF254278

Date taken / Date Recorded 15/11/2018 12:00 AM

Country Nigeria

Commissioning section MSF-FRANCE

Photographer / videographer / producer Natacha Buhler

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Additional Information / Shotlist Mohammad, IDP
We were given some food but there’s none left. It lasted for about 30 days.

CARTONS
Mohammad is among the 26,000 displaced people living in a camp in Bama, in northeast Nigeria
Fighting between the army and non-state armed groups continues in the region

Mohammad, IDP
We make a bit of money by collecting firewood in the bush and selling it.
Yesterday, we went into the bush in search of some food. We climbed a tree to pick some leaves and then Boko Haram arrived.
They started shooting at us and my friend was killed. I managed to escape.

Katja Lorenz, Head of Mission, MSF (in English)There is quite a restriction of movement amongst where the population can move, where humanitarian actors can move, so these people have come to Bama from areas where there were no humanitarian actors present.

CARTONS
The security situation remains volatile
Food aid is only provided in locations accessible to humanitarian actors

Katja Lorenz, Head of Mission, MSF (in English)
We decided to carry out a series of assessments between July and early August. And we found high malnutrition rates amongst especially children, amongst IDPs. And a lack of hospitalisation facilities in Bama itself.
We decided to set up a hospital that catered both for malnourished children needing further hospitalisation and for children with other diseases. And then we carried out an epidemiological study which clearly indicated that especially amongst IDPs who had arrived since about May 2018, there were both severe malnutrition rates and moderate malnutrition rates that were far above the emergency threshold.

CARTONS
Between August and the end of November, MSF admitted to its hospital 261 malnourished children
and a further 656 children suffering from other medical conditions