Médecins Sans Frontières - Kemi Ogundipe, MSF Paediatric Adviser

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF265478

Date taken / Date Recorded 03/04/2019 7:56 PM

Country Belgium

Commissioning section MSF-BELGIUM

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Additional Information / Shotlist I grew up in Nigeria in west Africa and there, one in 12 children does not live to see their fifth birthday

My name is Kemi Ogundipe, and I'm the paediatric referent at MSF Brussels.

A paediatrician is someone who has the unique opportunity
on having very profound impact on a child’s life.

When I think of care I have provided to children in missions,
the groups of children I always remember

are the children who had diabetes that I took care of in South Sudan.

They were about 30 of them and because of the care we provided to them,
they were able to live where they would have died in any other place
and they were able to become teenagers.

And I remember one specific who was now 20 years old
and was coming back to visit
and get medicine from us
and was doing very well and
and was about to start university
and I think because of the care we provided.

Sadly,
throughout the world
children and adolescents are often exploited and neglected.
And in areas where we work in conflict and disasters,
that effect is magnified.

To improve the care for children in setting where MSF works,
we can try a few things.

The first thing that we should think about is
being able to provide better medical equipment and medical technologies.

Specifically, we can work on doing better care for children
with breathing problems such as pneumonia
because pneumonia is one of the major killers of children under five.

We can improve our lab and microbiology services
so that we can better diagnose and treat those children also.

In MSF we can continue to provide and campaign for better access to drugs
that are life saving
and also to vaccines to help these children.

To address paediatric health care challenges,
we need to continue conversations

and find solutions to enable clinicians all over the world
to improve and save the lives of more children.

To learn how to address paediatric health care challenges,
please join us at MSF paediatric days from April 5 to 6th.

Follow us on our website, where live streaming will be available.

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